{"id":293,"date":"2008-02-27T06:41:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T11:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-02-26T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T03:49:17","slug":"random-fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Random fact of the day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a news piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/26\/us\/26religion.html?_r=1&amp;ei=5088&amp;en=a96a86a120796fbc&amp;ex=1361682000&amp;oref=slogin&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=print\">Pew&#8217;s new study on religious affiliations in America<\/a>, I was astounded by this fact:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[R]oughly 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s in addition to the 25% of Americans who are currently Catholic.\u00a0 More though &#8211; that means a large percentage of Catholics &#8211; especially factoring in the Latino immigrants who have swelled the number of U.S. Catholics &#8211; have left the Church to become &#8220;former Catholics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of ideas and reflections about this topic, but at the moment, I&#8217;m keeping them to myself until I have a chance to give them the benefit of a night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a news piece on Pew&#8217;s new study on religious affiliations in America, I was astounded by this fact: [R]oughly 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics. That&#8217;s in addition to the 25% of Americans who are currently Catholic.\u00a0 More though &#8211; that means a large percentage of Catholics &#8211; especially factoring in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-morality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-4J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}