{"id":32673,"date":"2012-05-24T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ousted_after_demanding_wine_for_mass_charleston_county_jail_chaplain_claims\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:16:03","slug":"ousted_after_demanding_wine_for_mass_charleston_county_jail_chaplain_claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32673","title":{"rendered":"Ousted after demanding wine for Mass, Charleston County jail chaplain claims rights were violated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a quarter century, Monsignor Ed Lofton has served as one of 86 volunteer chaplains at the Charleston County jail. Bringing calm to inmates and jailers alike is considered essential to his mission.<\/p>\n<p>That endeavor includes Communion, and for Catholics, wine is a necessary component.<\/p>\n<p>But carrying wine into a facility where alcohol is labeled as contraband hasn\u2019t come without controversy. He has fought and won that battle before&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20120524\/PC16\/120529535\/1165\/ousted-after-demanding-wine-for-mass-charleston-county-jail-chaplain-claims-rights-were-violated\">Read it all from the front page of the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a quarter century, Monsignor Ed Lofton has served as one of 86 volunteer chaplains at the Charleston County jail. Bringing calm to inmates and jailers alike is considered essential to his mission. That endeavor includes Communion, and for Catholics,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32673\">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":[39,42,54,154,102,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-other-churches","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673","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=32673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}