{"id":47976,"date":"2015-01-20T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_u-s-_churchgoers_still_sit_in_segregated_pews_and_most_are_ok_with_that\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T18:00:20","slug":"rns_u-s-_churchgoers_still_sit_in_segregated_pews_and_most_are_ok_with_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47976","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) U.S. churchgoers still sit in segregated pews, and most are OK with that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s birthday (Jan. 15), just as the civil rights drama \u201cSelma\u201d\u009d was nominated for best picture in the Oscar race, one fact of American life was little changed.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning remains, as King once observed, the most segregated hour in America. And, against a backdrop of increased racial tensions, new research shows that most Americans are OK with that.<\/p>\n<p>Two in three (66 percent) Americans have never regularly attended a place of worship where they were an ethnic minority, according to new polling analysis released by LifeWay Research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/01\/16\/u-s-churchgoers-still-sit-segregated-pews-ok\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s birthday (Jan. 15), just as the civil rights drama \u201cSelma\u201d\u009d was nominated for best picture in the Oscar race, one fact of American life was little changed. Sunday morning remains, as King once<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47976\">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":[48,39,50,209,184,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976","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=47976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}