{"id":6458,"date":"2008-06-02T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/trinity_church_reacts_to_obamas_departure\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:34:01","slug":"trinity_church_reacts_to_obamas_departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6458","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Church Reacts to Obama&#39;s Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ conducted its first Sunday services in 20 years without Barack Obama as a member.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic presidential frontrunner quit the South Side church on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Obama has faced months of criticism for his association with Trinity&#8217;s controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, a visiting speaker to the church openly mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama&#8217;s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters Saturday in Aberdeen, S.D., Obama said his church experience had become a &#8220;political circus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91047010\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s Trinity United Church of Christ conducted its first Sunday services in 20 years without Barack Obama as a member. The Democratic presidential frontrunner quit the South Side church on Friday. Sen. Obama has faced months of criticism for his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6458\">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":[39,40,42,154,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","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=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}