{"id":47797,"date":"2015-01-09T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_atheist_parents_take_on_christian_good_news_club_with_better_news_club\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:00:43","slug":"rns_atheist_parents_take_on_christian_good_news_club_with_better_news_club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47797","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Atheist parents take on Christian \u201d\u02dcGood News Club\u2019 with \u201d\u02dcBetter News Club\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of atheists in Rochester, N.Y., has bad news for the Good News Club, a Christian after-school club for children.<\/p>\n<p>The group, consisting of atheists, humanists and skeptics, announced its own after-school program: a Young Skeptics club featuring science, logic and learning activities.<\/p>\n<p>Young Skeptics is being sponsored by a volunteer-led group calling itself \u201cThe Better News Club.\u201d\u009d Its members come from the Atheist Community of Rochester \u201d\u201d the same group that offered the first atheist invocation before a town meeting in Greece, N.Y., after the Supreme Court ruled in May that public meetings could begin with sectarian prayers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/01\/08\/atheist-parents-take-christian-good-news-club-better-news-club\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of atheists in Rochester, N.Y., has bad news for the Good News Club, a Christian after-school club for children. The group, consisting of atheists, humanists and skeptics, announced its own after-school program: a Young Skeptics club featuring science,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47797\">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":[39,42,425,101,111,168,114,98,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-children","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797","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=47797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}