{"id":22157,"date":"2010-10-02T22:42:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-druidry_to_be_classed_as_religion_by_charity_commission\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T22:42:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:42:43","slug":"bbc-druidry_to_be_classed_as_religion_by_charity_commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22157","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8211;Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Druidry is to become the first pagan practice to be given official recognition as a religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Charity Commission has accepted that druids&#8217; worship of natural spirits could be seen as religious activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Druid Network&#8217;s charitable status entitles it to tax breaks, but the organisation says it does not earn enough to benefit from this.<\/p>\n<p>The commission says the network&#8217;s work in promoting druidry as a religion is in the public interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11457795\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Druidry is to become the first pagan practice to be given official recognition as a religion. The Charity Commission has accepted that druids&#8217; worship of natural spirits could be seen as religious activity. The Druid Network&#8217;s charitable status entitles it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22157\">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":[39,50,42,199,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157","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=22157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}