{"id":4830,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/episcopalian-atheists\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:53","slug":"episcopalian-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/episcopalian-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Episcopalian Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripps Howard News Service profiled former lawyer James Kelley of Washington, D.C., in 1997, one of a small group at his local church who are enthusiastic Episcopalians but who do not believe in God.  Said Kelley, \u201cWe all love the incense, the stained glass windows, the organ music, the vestments, and all of that.  It&#8217;s drama.  It&#8217;s aesthetics.  It&#8217;s the ritual.  That&#8217;s neat stuff.  I don&#8217;t want to give all that up just because I don&#8217;t believe in God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Plain Dealer (Cleveland), May 31, 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripps Howard News Service profiled former lawyer James Kelley of Washington, D.C., in 1997, one of a small group at his local church who are enthusiastic Episcopalians but who do not believe in God. Said Kelley, \u201cWe all love the incense, the stained glass windows, the organ music, the vestments, and all of that. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,3390,4290],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}