{"id":9679,"date":"2008-11-19T18:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/clergy_rally_in_dc_for_homeowner_protections\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:45:23","slug":"clergy_rally_in_dc_for_homeowner_protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9679","title":{"rendered":"Clergy rally in D.C. for homeowner protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clergy and congregants from more than 40 states gathered in front of the Department of Treasury on Tuesday to pray for Secretary Henry Paulson and members of Congress to put an end to the home foreclosure crisis.<\/p>\n<p>PICO, a network of faith-based community organizations that helps provide affordable housing, is demanding that the Treasury require all banks receiving a chunk of the federal bailout package to adopt systematic loan modifications that could keep 2 million people from losing their homes, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want them to look at the bigger picture. Don&#8217;t just look at Wall Street, look at Main Street. Look at the man next door who is working hard and really paying taxes,&#8221; said Marvin Webb, the assistant pastor of Peniel Full Gospel Baptist Church in El Sobrante, Calif. &#8220;We are asking the secretary and Congress to keep people in their homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2008-11-18-clergy-treasury_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clergy and congregants from more than 40 states gathered in front of the Department of Treasury on Tuesday to pray for Secretary Henry Paulson and members of Congress to put an end to the home foreclosure crisis. PICO, a network<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9679\">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":[39,40,149,600,151,108,596,594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-september-2008-proposed-henry-paulson-700-billion-bailout-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679","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=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}