{"id":2819,"date":"2007-11-05T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kerry_laments_faith_missteps_in_2004_race\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T15:19:00","slug":"kerry_laments_faith_missteps_in_2004_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Laments Faith Missteps in 2004 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, then-presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., didn&#8217;t make his religious background and convictions clear to the public, he said Thursday, and paid a price for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The challenge for anyone running for president is how to explain who they are &#8230; I could have done a better job of that, and probably should have,&#8221; Kerry said at a session hosted by the Pew Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on his own journey of faith, experience on the campaign trail and religious studies since the 2004 election, Kerry outlined his mistakes and mapped out areas of common ground for religious liberals and conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/article_detail.cfm?AID=9655\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, then-presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., didn&#8217;t make his religious background and convictions clear to the public, he said Thursday, and paid a price for it. &#8220;The challenge for anyone running for president is how to explain who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2819\">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":[39,40,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}