{"id":39875,"date":"2013-09-03T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_on_religion_a_chicago_church_sees_justice_in_lands_bounty\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:00:42","slug":"ny_times_on_religion_a_chicago_church_sees_justice_in_lands_bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39875","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times On Religion) A Chicago Church Sees Justice in Land\u2019s Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In retirement, &#8230;[Juanita O\u2019Neal] bought some acreage in the flatlands 60 miles south of Chicago and plunged her hands back into the soil. On a recent Saturday morning, like all the Saturday mornings of the summer, she had driven with a contingent of black farmers to sell their bounty at a market sponsored by one of Chicago\u2019s most formidable black churches, Trinity United Church of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t correct the past,\u201d\u009d said Ms. O\u2019Neal, 68. \u201cI can\u2019t blame anyone for the past. I have to take the accountability. But if my grandparents are looking down on me, they\u2019re saying, \u201d\u02dcGood job.\u2019 \u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration with Ms. O\u2019Neal and a half-dozen other black farmers from an area known as Pembroke Township fulfills two missions for Trinity\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/31\/us\/a-church-in-chicago-looks-to-the-farm-for-justice.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In retirement, &#8230;[Juanita O\u2019Neal] bought some acreage in the flatlands 60 miles south of Chicago and plunged her hands back into the soil. On a recent Saturday morning, like all the Saturday mornings of the summer, she had driven with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39875\">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":[48,39,40,140,133,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-energy-natural-resources","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875","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=39875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}