{"id":56417,"date":"2016-11-22T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_bloomington_indiana_changes_the_name_of_good_friday_to_spring_holiday\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:10:08","slug":"bbc_bloomington_indiana_changes_the_name_of_good_friday_to_spring_holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56417","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bloomington, Indiana, changes the name of &#34;Good Friday&#34; to &#34;Spring Holiday&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US city of Bloomington in Indiana has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day as &#8220;Spring Holiday&#8221; and &#8220;Fall Holiday&#8221; to be more &#8220;inclusive&#8221;.<br \/>\nMayor John Hamilton said the move would &#8220;better reflect cultural sensitivity in the workplace&#8221;, local media said.<br \/>\nBloomington is a traditionally liberal city. Its county gave Hillary Clinton 58.6% in the presidential election.<br \/>\nBut the move sparked a backlash on social media, with opponents condemning it as an act of political correctness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38045114\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US city of Bloomington in Indiana has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day as &#8220;Spring Holiday&#8221; and &#8220;Fall Holiday&#8221; to be more &#8220;inclusive&#8221;. Mayor John Hamilton said the move would &#8220;better reflect cultural sensitivity in the workplace&#8221;, local media<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56417\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,175,615,168,133,123,155,151,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-multiculturalism-pluralism","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56417","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=56417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}