{"id":42500,"date":"2014-02-09T00:58:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_is_america_losing_faith_atheism_on_the_rise_but_still_in_the_shad\/"},"modified":"2014-02-09T00:58:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T00:58:34","slug":"telegraph_is_america_losing_faith_atheism_on_the_rise_but_still_in_the_shad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42500","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Is America losing faith? Atheism on the rise but still in the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Tech group contains a broad spectrum, from life-long atheists who grew up in sceptical families to home-schooled Baptists, evangelical Catholics and even a young man who was brought up in a Dominionist cult dedicated to establishing a Theocracy in America.<\/p>\n<p> Caroline &#8211; not her real name &#8211; is a graduate research chemist who is about to hit the job market and is afraid that her atheism will be held against her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m more concerned about getting a job than losing one,\u201d\u009d she said. \u201cI know they Google you and while I can\u2019t hide my atheism, I don\u2019t really want to advertise it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/10626076\/Is-America-losing-faith-Atheism-on-the-rise-but-still-in-the-shadows.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Tech group contains a broad spectrum, from life-long atheists who grew up in sceptical families to home-schooled Baptists, evangelical Catholics and even a young man who was brought up in a Dominionist cult dedicated to establishing a Theocracy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42500\">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":[39,50,42,209,425,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-atheism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500","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=42500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}