{"id":27875,"date":"2011-08-24T21:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thomas_kidd-religious_freedom_under_assault\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T21:30:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:30:51","slug":"thomas_kidd-religious_freedom_under_assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27875","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Thomas  Kidd&#8211;Religious freedom under assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you walk into church, or your synagogue or mosque, say a little thanks to God for our founding principles. There&#8217;s a lot for which to be grateful, after all, and the freedom to worship is among our greatest blessings.<\/p>\n<p>But a new report by Pew Research Center&#8217;s Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life has revealed a disturbing pattern: Nearly a third of the globe&#8217;s population \u201d\u201d 2.2 billion people \u201d\u201d live in countries where religious persecution increased between 2006 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/forum\/2011-08-21-religion-freedom-persecution_n.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you walk into church, or your synagogue or mosque, say a little thanks to God for our founding principles. There&#8217;s a lot for which to be grateful, after all, and the freedom to worship is among our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27875\">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":[39,40,119,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875","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=27875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}