{"id":8838,"date":"2014-07-24T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8838"},"modified":"2014-07-24T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T22:09:09","slug":"there-are-still-good-people-in-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8838","title":{"rendered":"There are still good people in the southwest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after reading the stories of all of the hate directed at the refugees that have been coming across the southwest border of the US from some supposed &#8220;christians&#8221;, it was heartening to read an article a few minutes ago about the coalition of churches in Texas that have banded together to provide relief for these unfortunate people. That is what I grew up with in the UCC&#8230;although I&#8217;m an atheist now, I still appreciate the ideals that come from some of the teachings and it makes me feel good that there are still some good people in this country that don&#8217;t hate&#8230;that see the suffering of fellow human beings and feel compelled to do something about it&#8230;.so I applaud these folks for living their religious principles&#8230;.not many do anymore&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after reading the stories of all of the hate directed at the refugees that have been coming across the southwest border of the US from some supposed &#8220;christians&#8221;, it was heartening to read an article a few minutes ago about the coalition of churches in Texas that have banded together to provide relief for these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There are still good people in the southwest&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1086,505],"class_list":["post-8838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-refugees","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8839,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838\/revisions\/8839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}