{"id":7763,"date":"2012-08-31T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T07:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2012-08-31T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T07:30:40","slug":"the-peaceful-amish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-peaceful-amish\/","title":{"rendered":"The peaceful Amish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/31\/us\/daughter-in-law-of-amish-leader-describes-sexual-demands.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Witness Describes Domination of Amish Leader<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs. Miller and her husband, Martin, who live two hours north of Bergholz, were the first victims in the beard and hair attacks. Last Sept. 6, their six estranged children and their spouses pushed into their house and sheared Mr. Miller\u2019s beard and hair, then cut Mrs. Miller\u2019s waist-length hair to above her ears.<\/p>\n<p>Their daughter, Nancy M. Burkholder, who was granted immunity from prosecution and compelled to testify, said Thursday that she had helped \u201ctake the beard and hair\u201d of her parents in order \u201cto help them lead a proper Amish life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fanaticism is no human genius. It&#8217;s all too human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witness Describes Domination of Amish Leader: Mrs. Miller and her husband, Martin, who live two hours north of Bergholz, were the first victims in the beard and hair attacks. Last Sept. 6, their six estranged children and their spouses pushed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-peaceful-amish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7764,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions\/7764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}