{"id":5201,"date":"2011-01-07T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2011-01-07T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:23:41","slug":"ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1344779\/YWCA-drops-word-Christian-historic-Platform-51.html\">Via <\/a>the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of [Britain&#8217;s] best-known charities has changed its name, losing the clearest link to its Christian roots. Bosses say the name was chosen to reflect the fact that 51 per cent of people are female and that they can use the charity as a platform \u2018to have their say\u2019 and \u2018to move to the next stage of their lives\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The Young Women\u2019s Christian Association has dropped its historic title after 156 years because \u2018it no longer stands for who we are\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Instead the organisation \u2013 which is mainly funded by legacies left by Christian supporters over 15 decades \u2013 will be known as \u2018Platform 51\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good grief. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Daily Mail: One of [Britain&#8217;s] best-known charities has changed its name, losing the clearest link to its Christian roots. Bosses say the name was chosen to reflect the fact that 51 per cent of people are female and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ridiculous\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[694,693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}