{"id":23798,"date":"2011-01-03T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm-egypts_christians_pick_up_the_pieces_after_deadly_news_years_eve_churc\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:17:44","slug":"csm-egypts_christians_pick_up_the_pieces_after_deadly_news_years_eve_churc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23798","title":{"rendered":"CSM&#8211;Egypt&#39;s Christians pick up the pieces after deadly News Year&#39;s Eve church bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worshipers in Alexandria, Egypt, returned Sunday to the church that was the target of a deadly New Year&#8217;s Eve bombing to hold a somber mass amid sobering reminders of the worst attack on Egypt&#8217;s Christian minority in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Glass and debris still lay strewn about on the floor of the Al Qidiseen church where the dead and wounded fell after a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives shortly after midnight Friday evening, killing 21 and wounding more than 90.<\/p>\n<p>In the sanctuary, some sobbed as they followed the priest in chanting prayers and took communion. But when they emerged, along with wails of grief, there were cries of anger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2011\/0102\/Egypt-s-Christians-pick-up-the-pieces-after-deadly-News-Year-s-Eve-church-bombing\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worshipers in Alexandria, Egypt, returned Sunday to the church that was the target of a deadly New Year&#8217;s Eve bombing to hold a somber mass amid sobering reminders of the worst attack on Egypt&#8217;s Christian minority in more than a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23798\">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":[39,50,42,411,560,426,203,659,154,155,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","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=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}