{"id":26775,"date":"2011-06-17T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_goshen_college_silences_national_anthem_again\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T16:00:05","slug":"rns_goshen_college_silences_national_anthem_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26775","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Goshen College Silences National Anthem Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goshen College will no longer play The Star-Spangled Banner at sporting events, school leaders announced, reversing last year\u2019s decision to allow the use of the national anthem for the first time in the Mennonite college\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Some Mennonites had criticized the anthem\u2019s lyrics as glorifying war and offensive to the school\u2019s pacifist traditions. Goshen\u2019s Board of Directors said many felt the school\u2019s \u201callegiance should be to Christ rather than to country.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/goshen-college-silences-national-anthem-again-cms-18065\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goshen College will no longer play The Star-Spangled Banner at sporting events, school leaders announced, reversing last year\u2019s decision to allow the use of the national anthem for the first time in the Mennonite college\u2019s history. Some Mennonites had criticized<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26775\">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":[39,50,209,111,133,132,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-education","category-history","category-music","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775","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=26775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}