{"id":1916,"date":"2014-08-07T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:15:43","slug":"thursday-7-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/07\/thursday-7-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 7 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:11 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> The Winston-Salem restaurant that had been giving a 15% discount for praying publicly has discontinued doing so. Apparently the owner got a nastygram from a national atheist group pointing out that it was a violation of federal civil rights laws to charge atheists more than religious people. So the owner stopped giving the discount, fearing that she&#8217;d be sued if she continued doing so.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I think the whole thing is stupid. Businesses and individuals should be free to discriminate in favor of or against anyone they please. It&#8217;s government that must be completely neutral.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:11 &#8211; The Winston-Salem restaurant that had been giving a 15% discount for praying publicly has discontinued doing so. Apparently the owner got a nastygram from a national atheist group pointing out that it was a violation of federal civil rights laws to charge atheists more than religious people. So the owner stopped giving the discount, fearing that she&#8217;d be sued if she continued doing so.\n<\/p>\n<p>I think the whole thing is stupid.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/07\/thursday-7-august-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 7 August 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}