{"id":26589,"date":"2011-06-07T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_tennessean_how_does_god_fit_in_at_school\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:46:05","slug":"the_tennessean_how_does_god_fit_in_at_school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26589","title":{"rendered":"(The Tennessean) How does God fit in at school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle Tennesseans and their children are at the center of the emotional national debate about separation between religion and public school life.<\/p>\n<p>For most of American history, God was welcome in the public schools. The same is true today for many school systems across the Nashville area, where open prayer is held on school grounds, sports teams pray before games and high school graduations are routinely held in churches.<\/p>\n<p>But objections from families and national civil liberties groups find Middle Tennessee at the center of the litigious argument over separating public schools and church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20110605\/NEWS\/306050041\/Debate-over-separation-of-churches-schools-rages\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle Tennesseans and their children are at the center of the emotional national debate about separation between religion and public school life. For most of American history, God was welcome in the public schools. The same is true today for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26589\">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":[39,101,111,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-education","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589","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=26589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}