{"id":18772,"date":"2010-03-25T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christine_allen_oscar_romero_a_beacon_of_hope_for_the_poor\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:30:50","slug":"christine_allen_oscar_romero_a_beacon_of_hope_for_the_poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18772","title":{"rendered":"Christine Allen: Oscar Romero, a beacon of hope for the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man in El Salvador, Luis Gonz\u00c3\u00a1lez, told me recently: &#8220;Monsignor Romero provided a means through which social protest could be expressed. If a poor person said that beans were expensive, they were killed. No one could talk. But he could say those kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years on from his death, Romero&#8217;s life and murder is a challenge to the church and to all believers: are we prepared to actually put that power at the service of others, and to fight for justice for the world&#8217;s poor and marginalised, whatever the cost to ourselves?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2010\/mar\/20\/oscar-romero-anniversary-catholic\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man in El Salvador, Luis Gonz\u00c3\u00a1lez, told me recently: &#8220;Monsignor Romero provided a means through which social protest could be expressed. If a poor person said that beans were expensive, they were killed. No one could talk. But<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18772\">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":[48,39,50,42,625,198,186,154,88,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-el-salvador","category-central-america","category-church-history","category-other-churches","category-poverty","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772","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=18772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}