{"id":51184,"date":"2015-08-12T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_amish_converts_choosing_their_religion_and_building_roots_in_oldes\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:30:36","slug":"guardian_amish_converts_choosing_their_religion_and_building_roots_in_oldes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51184","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Amish converts choosing their religion and building roots in oldest settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bakersfield {California] isn\u2019t exactly Los Angeles, it\u2019s still a different pace compared to Garrett County [Maryland], a lush locale of ski lodges and pristine lakes in the shadow of Backbone Mountain, the state\u2019s highest peak.<\/p>\n<p>It is also home to Maryland\u2019s oldest Amish settlement. The Amish are a German speaking Protestant sect with historical roots in the Reformation. Church members dress plainly and avoid technology to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after moving to Oakland, Cortez would notice the plain-dressed people riding horse-drawn buggies or tractors as they headed into town or to church. She was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere weren\u2019t any Amish in California. The closest thing we had were nuns who sort of dressed similarly,\u201d\u009d Cortez laughed, realizing the analogy of Catholic nuns and Amish didn\u2019t quite equate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/aug\/07\/amish-converts-maryland-oldest-settlement\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Bakersfield {California] isn\u2019t exactly Los Angeles, it\u2019s still a different pace compared to Garrett County [Maryland], a lush locale of ski lodges and pristine lakes in the shadow of Backbone Mountain, the state\u2019s highest peak. It is also home<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51184\">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":[39,50,209,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51184","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=51184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}