{"id":23244,"date":"2010-12-03T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_god_knows_we_lie_about_going_to_church\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:00:24","slug":"usa_today_god_knows_we_lie_about_going_to_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23244","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) God knows, we lie about going to church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Philip Brenner, University of Michigan research fellow with the Institute for Social Research]&#8230;plowed through 400 surveys and time diaries across four decades with three quarters of a million respondents in 13 nations to find that Americans exaggerate their church attendance more than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>About 23% of Americans actually do attend church &#8220;regularly&#8221; (two or three times a month or more) according to time diaries (in which people account for 24 hours of recent activity). But 35% to 45% say they attend regularly when asked on surveys&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2010\/12\/god-church-attendance-\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Philip Brenner, University of Michigan research fellow with the Institute for Social Research]&#8230;plowed through 400 surveys and time diaries across four decades with three quarters of a million respondents in 13 nations to find that Americans exaggerate their church attendance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23244\">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":[48,39,50,209,183,184,129,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244","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=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}