{"id":1877,"date":"2016-01-16T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2016-01-16T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:13:13","slug":"state-of-the-union-address-and-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/state-of-the-union-address-and-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union Address and Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE State of the Union address by President Barack Obama is worth reading. However, this address, his last as President, mentions Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>I quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn&#8217;t a matter of political correctness. It&#8217;s a matter of understanding what makes us strong.<br \/>\nThe world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. His Holiness, Pope Francis, told this body (Congress) from the very spot I stand tonight that &#8220;to imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take<br \/>\ntheir place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalised, or a kid bullied, that doesn&#8217;t make us safer. That&#8217;s not telling it like it is. It&#8217;s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world. It makes it harder to achieve our goals. And it betrays who<br \/>\nwe are as a country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE State of the Union address by President Barack Obama is worth reading. However, this address, his last as President, mentions Pope Francis. I quote: &#8220;We need to reject any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-pope"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}