{"id":54686,"date":"2016-06-09T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_national_cathedral_will_remove_confederate_flag_stained_glass_windows\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:40:02","slug":"npr_national_cathedral_will_remove_confederate_flag_stained_glass_windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54686","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) National Cathedral Will Remove Confederate Flag Stained Glass Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cathedral will be removing two images of the Confederate Flag from the building&#8217;s stained glass windows, after a period of public discussion on issues of race, slavery and justice.<\/p>\n<p>The windows in question memorialize Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson; they were installed in 1953 after lobbying by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/09\/481360313\/national-cathedral-will-remove-confederate-flag-stained-glass-windows\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">National Cathedral Will Remove Confederate Flag Stained Glass Windows <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KzZI7mkq8C\">https:\/\/t.co\/KzZI7mkq8C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NPR (@NPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR\/status\/740873876222017536\">June 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cathedral will be removing two images of the Confederate Flag from the building&#8217;s stained glass windows, after a period of public discussion on issues of race, slavery and justice. The windows in question memorialize Confederate generals Robert E.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54686\">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":[36,48,39,50,209,130,66,133,184,120,108,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-art","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54686","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=54686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}