{"id":30874,"date":"2012-02-15T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_mormons_baptise_deceased_parents_of_nazi-hunter_simon_wiesenthal\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:32:00","slug":"bbc_mormons_baptise_deceased_parents_of_nazi-hunter_simon_wiesenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30874","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Mormons baptise deceased parents of Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are outraged that such insensitive actions continue in the Mormon temples,&#8221; said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, a spokesman at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>The Mormon religion allows baptism after death, and believes the departed soul can then accept or reject the baptismal rites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-17036046\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the news. &#8220;We are outraged that such insensitive actions continue in the Mormon temples,&#8221; said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, a spokesman at the centre. The Mormon religion allows baptism after death, and believes the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30874\">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":[48,39,42,581,438,178,161,429,428,155,184,108,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-judaism","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874","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=30874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}