{"id":17535,"date":"2010-01-26T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_as_federal_abstinence_funds_dry_up_faith_groups_take_the_lead\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:48:20","slug":"ap_as_federal_abstinence_funds_dry_up_faith_groups_take_the_lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17535","title":{"rendered":"AP: As federal abstinence funds dry up, faith groups take the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeiel Ballard and his girlfriend, both 16, are dressed up in their best attire, ready for a night of dancing and fun.<\/p>\n<p>But there will be no close embraces or risque moves to test chaperones on the dance floor. The &#8220;purity ball&#8221; sponsored by their Seventh-day Adventist Church will feature a vow to abstain from sex until marriage and offer tips on &#8220;appropriate&#8221; touching between the sexes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tough, but when you have sex at an early age it can become addictive,&#8221; Ballard said. &#8220;And when you get addicted &#8230; it can lead you down the wrong path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-01-23-abstinence-purity_N.htm\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeiel Ballard and his girlfriend, both 16, are dressed up in their best attire, ready for a night of dancing and fun. But there will be no close embraces or risque moves to test chaperones on the dance floor. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17535\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,168,154,177,108,112,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}