{"id":47691,"date":"2015-01-03T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_cathy_grossman-what_is_the_episcopal_church\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:00:09","slug":"rns_cathy_grossman-what_is_the_episcopal_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47691","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Cathy Grossman&#8211;What is the Episcopal Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has this church has gone from influential to afterthought, from elite to obscure, in record time? Yes and no.<\/p>\n<p>It was always a small church but at least people knew it was an American Protestant denomination without being told. And they knew many of the Founding Fathers and 11 U.S. presidents prayed in Episcopal pews.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when even the U.S. Supreme Court has no Protestant justices, that\u2019s no longer common knowledge. Hence, the Post\u2019s rare-bird-sighting treatment complete with taxonomy.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen whole American religious landscape shift, denominational lines blur and points of religious distinction \u201d\u201d theological and cultural \u201d\u201d flatten out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cathylynngrossman.religionnews.com\/2014\/12\/31\/episcopal-church-protestant-religion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has this church has gone from influential to afterthought, from elite to obscure, in record time? Yes and no. It was always a small church but at least people knew it was an American Protestant denomination without being told. And<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47691\">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":[36,39,66,133,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47691","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=47691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}