{"id":54784,"date":"2016-06-17T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tim_scott_and_lindsey_graham_give_emotional_reflections_on_anniversary_of_e\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:00:26","slug":"tim_scott_and_lindsey_graham_give_emotional_reflections_on_anniversary_of_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54784","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham give emotional reflections on anniversary of Emanuel Church massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina\u2019s two U.S. senators offered two stylistically different but equally emotional reflections to commemorate the anniversary of the Emanuel AME Church shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Each speech \u201d\u201d delivered in succession on the Senate floor Thursday on the eve of the anniversary \u201d\u201d was in keeping with the lawmakers\u2019 personalities and reputations among their colleagues on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott spoke in a deep sorrowful baritone from prepared remarks about the night of June 17, 2015, when Dylann Roof admitted to ending a Bible study by opening fire and killing nine black parishioners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160616\/160619523\/scott-and-graham-give-emotional-reflections-on-anniversary-of-emanuel-ame-church-shooting\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina\u2019s two U.S. senators offered two stylistically different but equally emotional reflections to commemorate the anniversary of the Emanuel AME Church shooting. Each speech \u201d\u201d delivered in succession on the Senate floor Thursday on the eve of the anniversary<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54784\">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":[48,39,40,54,434,438,184,151,120,108,618,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-adult-education","category-death-burial-funerals","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-senate","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54784","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=54784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}