{"id":45117,"date":"2014-07-15T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_atheist_to_open_new_york_town_meeting_after_supreme_court_oks_prayers\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:30:57","slug":"ap_atheist_to_open_new_york_town_meeting_after_supreme_court_oks_prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45117","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Atheist To Open New York Town Meeting After Supreme Court OKs Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An atheist is set to deliver the invocation in a western New York community whose town board won a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding its right to open meetings with a prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Courtney, 52, a mechanical engineer, said he asked the town of Greece right after the 5-4 decision in May for an opportunity to deliver the &#8220;non-theist&#8221; message.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s conservative majority declared the prayers in line with national traditions and said the content is not significant as long as the prayers don&#8217;t denigrate non-Christians or try to win converts. The town argued persons of any faith were welcome to give the invocation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/07\/15\/atheist-to-open-new-york-town-meeting_n_5586828.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An atheist is set to deliver the invocation in a western New York community whose town board won a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding its right to open meetings with a prayer. Dan Courtney, 52, a mechanical engineer, said he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45117\">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":[39,40,42,425,615,155,151,108,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-city-government","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-ruraltown-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45117","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=45117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}