{"id":59271,"date":"2017-04-24T12:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59271"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:23:08","slug":"ft-uk-politicians-preach-their-own-brands-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59271","title":{"rendered":"(FT) UK politicians preach their own brands of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs May, whose father was a Church of England vicar, discussed Christianity mainly as an inspiration for people to do good such as visiting the sick or bereaved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should celebrate all these contributions and others like them, and the difference they make in our society and around the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farron, meanwhile, accused Mrs May of linking Easter to \u201ccomfortable nostalgia\u201d. He insisted that the message was, instead, \u201cradical and disturbing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople do not traditionally willingly exchange riches, glory and comfort for poverty, shame and pain \u2014 but that is what we see in the Easter story,\u201d Mr Farron said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a784daf4-269a-11e7-a34a-538b4cb30025\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs May, whose father was a Church of England vicar, discussed Christianity mainly as an inspiration for people to do good such as visiting the sick or bereaved. \u201cWe should celebrate all these contributions and others like them, and the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59271\">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":[40,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59271","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=59271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59272,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59271\/revisions\/59272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}