{"id":64844,"date":"2017-10-28T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64844"},"modified":"2017-10-28T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T18:56:25","slug":"the-hill-george-washingtons-virginia-church-taking-down-his-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64844","title":{"rendered":"(The Hill) George Washington\u2019s Virginia church taking down his memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A church attended by\u00a0<a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/person\/george-washington\">George Washington<\/a>\u00a0will take down a memorial to the nation&#8217;s first president, a move church leaders say is intended to make the\u00a0place of worship more welcoming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/oct\/27\/george-washingtons-church-tear-down-memorial-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Times reported<\/a>\u00a0Friday that Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., will remove memorials of Washington and former Confederate Gen.\u00a0<a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/person\/robert-e-lee\">Robert E. Lee<\/a>, which stand on either side of the church&#8217;s altar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome,&#8221; church leaders said. &#8220;Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/357608-george-washingtons-virginia-church-taking-down-his-memorial\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church attended by\u00a0George Washington\u00a0will take down a memorial to the nation&#8217;s first president, a move church leaders say is intended to make the\u00a0place of worship more welcoming. The Washington Times reported\u00a0Friday that Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., will remove<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64844\">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":[209,66,133,616,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-office-of-the-president","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844","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=64844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64846,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64844\/revisions\/64846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}