{"id":8320,"date":"2013-02-10T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2013-02-10T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T17:12:05","slug":"in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"In the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Witch_Burning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Witch_Burning-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Witch_Burning\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Witch_Burning-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Witch_Burning.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A hideous story from <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/02\/07\/16891343-accused-witch-tortured-burned-alive-in-papua-new-guinea?lite\">NBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assailants stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile sorcery-related murders in this South Pacific island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the hundreds of bystanders took photographs of Wednesday&#8217;s brutal slaying. Grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country&#8217;s biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier. The prime minister, police and diplomats condemned the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old who had a child, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before, police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note the coexistence of modernity (the taking of photographs) with ancient superstition. Belief in the supernatural is not going away any time soon; the only question is the form that it will take. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hideous story from NBC: Assailants stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/in-the-21st-century\/\">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":[9,711],"tags":[250,802],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320"}],"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=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8323,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}