{"id":52682,"date":"2015-12-21T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_major_newspaper_the_tennessean_has_hired_a_religion_reporter_why_that_is_\/"},"modified":"2015-12-21T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:30:15","slug":"a_major_newspaper_the_tennessean_has_hired_a_religion_reporter_why_that_is_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52682","title":{"rendered":"A major newspaper (The Tennessean) has hired a religion reporter: Why that is great news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is this amazing news for everyone? Because so much of what makes headlines, from debates over Syrian refugees to battles over the content of public school plays (looking at you, Charlie Brown!), has a religion angle. And more often than not, the best coverage of such stories comes from full-time religion beat specialists.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee readers, feel free to insert celebratory whooping and hollering here (and don&#8217;t forget to hit the play arrow on the Kool and the Gang video above).<\/p>\n<p>The prodigal Godbeat has come home to Music City!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2015\/12\/21\/a-major-newspaper-has-hired-a-religion-reporter-why-that-is-amazing-news-for-everyone\">Read it all<\/a> (from Get Religion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is this amazing news for everyone? Because so much of what makes headlines, from debates over Syrian refugees to battles over the content of public school plays (looking at you, Charlie Brown!), has a religion angle. And more often<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52682\">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":[39,50,209,133,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52682","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=52682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}