{"id":34364,"date":"2012-09-02T23:20:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T23:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/silent_testimony_black_churches_combine_pantomime_and_christian_message\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T23:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T23:20:19","slug":"silent_testimony_black_churches_combine_pantomime_and_christian_message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34364","title":{"rendered":"Silent testimony: Black churches combine pantomime and Christian message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On stage in a church on Detroit&#8217;s east side, Myra Morrison thrust her right fist down in front of her body and pulled it up slowly &#8211; as if she was yanking out her soul and delivering it to God. She was dressed in a white robe, wearing white paint on her face like a mask.<\/p>\n<p>With a flip of her wrist, she glided her hand up, her furrowed brow melting into a face of bliss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I give myself away, so you can use me,&#8221; a gospel singer sang on a recording, as the Farmington Hills, Mich., woman acted out the words to the song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2012\/08\/29\/2300531\/silent-testimony-black-churches.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On stage in a church on Detroit&#8217;s east side, Myra Morrison thrust her right fist down in front of her body and pulled it up slowly &#8211; as if she was yanking out her soul and delivering it to God.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34364\">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":[39,108,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364","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=34364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}