{"id":6376,"date":"2011-09-21T04:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2011-09-21T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T04:45:48","slug":"perry-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/perry-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry &#038; Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rick-Perry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rick-Perry-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rick Perry\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6377\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/09\/20\/rick_perry_israel_event\">These comments<\/a> by Rick Perry are attracting a certain amount of attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>QUESTION: To what extent do you view America protecting Israeli as a theological priority?<\/p>\n<p>PERRY: Well obviously Israel is our oldest and most stable democratic ally in the region. That is what this is about. I also as a Christian have a clear directive to support Israel. So from my perspective both as an American and as a Christian, I am going to stand with Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think Progress <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/09\/20\/323659\/perry-christian-directive-israel\/\">somehow managed<\/a> to omit the crucial first two sentences of Perry\u2019s reply. Nevertheless, that third sentence is, to say the least, striking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These comments by Rick Perry are attracting a certain amount of attention: QUESTION: To what extent do you view America protecting Israeli as a theological priority? PERRY: Well obviously Israel is our oldest and most stable democratic ally in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/perry-israel\/\">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":[746,15,711],"tags":[221,801],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376"}],"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=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6380,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}