{"id":53459,"date":"2016-02-24T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gr_covering_the_funeral_of_antonin_scalia_while_ignoring_what_the_mass_was_\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:10:00","slug":"gr_covering_the_funeral_of_antonin_scalia_while_ignoring_what_the_mass_was_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53459","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Covering the funeral of Antonin Scalia, while ignoring what the Mass was really about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be blunt: The last thing this funeral Mass was about was &#8220;spirituality.&#8221; So search the  [New York] Times story and look for the role that terms such as &#8220;Christian&#8221; and &#8220;Catholic&#8221; played in its contents. What about &#8220;Jesus,&#8221; you ask? Forget about it.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest religious language in the [New York] Times piece linked a kind of vague, Americanized faith with a nod to current fights over religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2016\/2\/22\/covering-the-funeral-mass-of-justice-antonin-scalia-while-ignoring-what-it-was-really-about\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be blunt: The last thing this funeral Mass was about was &#8220;spirituality.&#8221; So search the [New York] Times story and look for the role that terms such as &#8220;Christian&#8221; and &#8220;Catholic&#8221; played in its contents. What about &#8220;Jesus,&#8221; you<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53459\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,209,101,162,438,178,98,89,435,154,184,151,108,364,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-christology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459","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=53459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}