{"id":50137,"date":"2015-06-04T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_majority_in_u-s-_still_say_moral_values_getting_worse\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:15:41","slug":"gallup_majority_in_u-s-_still_say_moral_values_getting_worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50137","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Majority in U.S. Still Say Moral Values Getting Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans (72%) continue to believe the state of moral values in the U.S. is &#8220;getting worse,&#8221; while 22% say it is &#8220;getting better.&#8221; Large majorities have said the state of moral values in the U.S. is declining since Gallup started asking this question annually in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Americans were slightly less pessimistic about the direction of the country&#8217;s morals in 2002 and 2003, when two-thirds (67%) said it was getting worse. Pessimism peaked between 2006 and 2008, when more than four in five Americans thought the state of moral values was declining.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/183467\/majority-say-moral-values-getting-worse.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans (72%) continue to believe the state of moral values in the U.S. is &#8220;getting worse,&#8221; while 22% say it is &#8220;getting better.&#8221; Large majorities have said the state of moral values in the U.S. is declining since Gallup<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50137\">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":[39,50,209,168,129,109,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-psychology","category-sociology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50137","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=50137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}