{"id":28221,"date":"2011-09-13T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T21:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/more_americans_tailoring_religion_to_fit_their_needs\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T21:19:52","slug":"more_americans_tailoring_religion_to_fit_their_needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28221","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) More Americans tailoring religion to fit their needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If World War II-era warbler Kate Smith sang today, her anthem could be GodsBless America.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the key findings in newly released research that reveals America&#8217;s drift from clearly defined religious denominations to faiths cut to fit personal preferences.<\/p>\n<p>The folks who make up God as they go are side-by-side with self-proclaimed believers who claim the Christian label but shed their ties to traditional beliefs and practices. Religion statistics expert George Barna says, with a wry hint of exaggeration, America is headed for &#8220;310 million people with 310 million religions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2011-09-14\/america-religious-denominations\/50376288\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If World War II-era warbler Kate Smith sang today, her anthem could be GodsBless America. That&#8217;s one of the key findings in newly released research that reveals America&#8217;s drift from clearly defined religious denominations to faiths cut to fit personal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28221\">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":[39,50,209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221","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=28221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}