{"id":23530,"date":"2010-12-20T02:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bbcs_america_correspondent_kevin_connolly_gives_a_guide_to_american_cul\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T02:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:04:55","slug":"the_bbcs_america_correspondent_kevin_connolly_gives_a_guide_to_american_cul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23530","title":{"rendered":"The BBC&#39;s America correspondent Kevin Connolly gives a guide to American Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And America is, of course, an intensely religious place &#8211; something that is not difficult to trace to its foundation by a band of hardy religious zealots.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, over time, it is getting more religious rather than less. The motto In God We Trust was not added to American banknotes until the 1950s, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Americans tied themselves in knots two years ago agonising over whether a black man, or a white woman could yet be elected president.<br \/>\nBut here is a safe prediction. It will be a very long time before an atheist or agnostic gets anywhere near the White House.<br \/>\nA stark contrast with Europe where the opposite is increasingly the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/9294890.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And America is, of course, an intensely religious place &#8211; something that is not difficult to trace to its foundation by a band of hardy religious zealots. If anything, over time, it is getting more religious rather than less. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23530\">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":[39,50,209,199,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530","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=23530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}