{"id":35214,"date":"2012-10-21T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/western_massachusetts_episcopal_convention_votes_against_casino_gambling\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T15:30:54","slug":"western_massachusetts_episcopal_convention_votes_against_casino_gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35214","title":{"rendered":"Western Massachusetts Episcopal convention votes against casino gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resolution from the convention, meeting at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, reads, in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResolved, that we will undertake efforts to educate our members and our communities about the negative impact casinos will have &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResolved, that we will take action to minimize that negative impact, in particular by opposing a casino in Springfield because of the large number of our fellow citizens made especially vulnerable because of the effects of age, poverty, and addiction in the city; and we will be prepared to help those people who will suffer as a result of this legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/10\/episcopal_convention_votes_aga.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resolution from the convention, meeting at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, reads, in part: \u201cResolved, that we will undertake efforts to educate our members and our communities about the negative impact casinos will have &#8230; \u201cResolved, that we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35214\">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":[36,39,40,582,149,66,168,87,379,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35214","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=35214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}