{"id":3063,"date":"2007-10-23T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2007-10-23T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:55:41","slug":"the-founding-fathers-and-the-battle-over-church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-founding-fathers-and-the-battle-over-church-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The founding fathers and the battle over church and state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From KERA&#8217;s Think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What role did religion play in the founding of our nation? This highly-debated topic is the subject of Dr. Forrest Church&#8217;s new book &#8220;So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State&#8221; (Harcourt, 2007). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to the program now. Sounds very interesting &#8211; take 45 minutes or so and give it a listen &#8211; then share your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From KERA&#8217;s Think: What role did religion play in the founding of our nation? This highly-debated topic is the subject of Dr. Forrest Church&#8217;s new book &#8220;So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State&#8221; (Harcourt, 2007). I&#8217;m listening to the program now. Sounds very interesting &#8211; take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-founding-fathers-and-the-battle-over-church-and-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The founding fathers and the battle over church and state<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[260,261,93,74,150],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-politics","tag-church-and-state","tag-dr-forrest-church","tag-kera","tag-npr","tag-think"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Np","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}