{"id":45792,"date":"2014-09-10T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_atheists_want_you_to_sit_down_for_the_pledge_of_allegiance\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:00:13","slug":"rns_atheists_want_you_to_sit_down_for_the_pledge_of_allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45792","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Atheists want you to sit down for the Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sit down and shut up.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message of a campaign launched Monday (Sept. 8) by the American Humanist Association, asking Americans to refrain from standing and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance until Congress removes the phrase \u201cunder God.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The 29,000-member humanist activist group, which also advocates on First Amendment issues, holds that the phrase \u201cunder God\u201d\u009d is an unconstitutional establishment of religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/09\/09\/atheists-want-sit-pledge-allegiance\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit down and shut up. That\u2019s the message of a campaign launched Monday (Sept. 8) by the American Humanist Association, asking Americans to refrain from standing and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance until Congress removes the phrase \u201cunder God.\u201d\u009d The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45792\">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":[39,40,42,425,133,114,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45792","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=45792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}