{"id":8003,"date":"2008-08-20T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_analysis_is_mccain_finding_his_way_on_faith\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:02:41","slug":"cnn_analysis_is_mccain_finding_his_way_on_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8003","title":{"rendered":"CNN  Analysis: Is McCain finding his way on faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a rainy evening in December in the upstate South Carolina town of Greer, as his once-languishing campaign was clawing its way back into contention, John McCain hosted a town hall meeting at a diner called Pete&#8217;s Drive-In.<\/p>\n<p> He talked about the issues that usually stir his passions &#8212; a commitment to service, winning the war in Iraq, fighting pork-barrel spending &#8212; before taking questions from a small audience of Republican primary voters.<\/p>\n<p>As the event neared its conclusion, a man in the back of the restaurant raised his hand and broached a topic not often heard at the VFW and American Legion halls where McCain preferred to campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was wondering if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior,&#8221; the voter said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/08\/18\/mccain.faith\/index.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a rainy evening in December in the upstate South Carolina town of Greer, as his once-languishing campaign was clawing its way back into contention, John McCain hosted a town hall meeting at a diner called Pete&#8217;s Drive-In. He talked<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8003\">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":[39,40,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","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=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}