{"id":5968,"date":"2016-08-02T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/12\/partisan-prayers-at-rnc\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:03:07","slug":"partisan-prayers-at-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/partisan-prayers-at-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Guth Comments on RNC&#8217;s Partisan Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Mark Burns of Easley made news when he spoke at the Republican National Convention, declaring that Donald Trump is a man of God and that the &#8220;enemy&#8221; is \u201cHillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.&#8221; Critics suggested Burns had crossed the line by asking God to favor one political party over another, and in an article in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/pickens-county\/2016\/07\/20\/easley-pastors-partisan-prayer-comments-raise-eyebrows-republican-national-convention\/87350796\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Furman political science professor Jim Guth said that \u201cpartisan prayers at national conventions are virtually unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Mark Burns of Easley made news when he spoke at the Republican National Convention, declaring that Donald Trump is a man of God and that the &#8220;enemy&#8221; is \u201cHillary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,69,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}