{"id":12509,"date":"2011-04-07T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2011-04-07T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:05:50","slug":"turning-lent-into-a-political-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/turning-lent-into-a-political-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Lent into a political exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And nobody does it better than Evangelical Leftist, Jim Wallis who has gone on a \u201cwater fast\u201d to protest government budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>wondered <\/em>where that smell was coming from.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sojo.net\/2011\/03\/29\/day-two-of-fasting-against-selectively-cruel-budget-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday morning, Tony Hall, David Beckmann, Ritu Sharma, and I began a water fast because of what I call \u201cselectively cruel\u201d budget cuts aimed at our most important poverty-fighting programs. The room at the National Press Club was full, and we all felt great  support from the many hunger, poverty, and faith-inspired activists  gathered there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And nobody does it better than Evangelical Leftist, Jim Wallis who has gone on a \u201cwater fast\u201d to protest government budget cuts. I wondered where that smell was coming from. From here: Yesterday morning, Tony Hall, David Beckmann, Ritu Sharma, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/turning-lent-into-a-political-exercise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2077,941,1616],"class_list":["post-12509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-left","tag-christian-left","tag-jim-wallis","tag-water-fast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}