{"id":34158,"date":"2012-08-21T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mitt_romney-paul_ryan_gop_ticket_reflects_religious_shift\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:00:07","slug":"mitt_romney-paul_ryan_gop_ticket_reflects_religious_shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34158","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan GOP ticket reflects religious shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By naming devout, conservative Catholic U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, former governor Mitt Romney, once a Mormon bishop, did more than ensure the USA will have a Catholic vice president in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He established the first Republican ticket without a Protestant since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln, who belonged to no church, chose Maine Sen. Hannibal Hamlin, a Unitarian as his running mate, says Mark Silk, professor of religion and public life at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.<\/p>\n<p>Yet today&#8217;s GOP ticket \u201d\u201d two Christians who are neither evangelical nor mainline Protestants \u201d\u201d isn&#8217;t a major marker of social change, University of California history professor David Hollinger says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2012-08-19\/romney-ryan-ticket-religious-shift\/57147738\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By naming devout, conservative Catholic U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, former governor Mitt Romney, once a Mormon bishop, did more than ensure the USA will have a Catholic vice president in 2013. He established the first<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34158\">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":[39,40,133,616,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-history","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34158","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=34158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}