{"id":30597,"date":"2012-01-31T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_christians_fear_losing_freedoms_in_arab_spring_movement\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:29:10","slug":"usa_today_christians_fear_losing_freedoms_in_arab_spring_movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30597","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as she sits in her yellow pajamas on the morning of Orthodox Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Sunlight pours in through a window. Outside, visitors come to look upon the spot where Egypt&#8217;s Christians \u201d\u201d most known as Copts \u201d\u201d believe the Holy Family found refuge after fleeing Bethlehem and assassins sent by King Herod to kill the baby Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Once crowded with Christians, Cairo&#8217;s Coptic quarter where Samia lives with her husband, Mounir, and two children is home to fewer than 50 Christian families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2012-01-30\/arab-spring-christians\/52894182\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as she sits in her yellow pajamas on the morning of Orthodox Christmas. Sunlight pours in through a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30597\">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":[39,40,50,42,411,560,114,203,154,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597","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=30597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}