{"id":60159,"date":"2017-05-22T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60159"},"modified":"2017-05-22T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:42:16","slug":"gallup-views-of-us-moral-values-slip-to-seven-year-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60159","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Views of US Moral Values Slip to Seven-Year Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; ratings of U.S. moral values, consistently negative through the years, have slipped to their lowest point in seven years. More than four in five (81%) now rate the state of moral values in the U.S. as only fair or poor.<\/p>\n<p>Since Gallup first asked in 2002 whether the nation&#8217;s moral values were getting better or getting worse, the percentage saying worse has always been well above the majority level, ranging from a low of 64% in November 2004 to a high of 82% in May 2007. Over the past six years, it has stayed within a five-point range, reaching a low of 72% in 2013 and 2015 before climbing to this year&#8217;s high of 77%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/210917\/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; ratings of U.S. moral values, consistently negative through the years, have slipped to their lowest point in seven years. More than four in five (81%) now rate the state of moral values in the U.S. as only fair or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60159\">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":[209,168,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60159","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=60159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60161,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60159\/revisions\/60161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}