{"id":1470,"date":"2007-01-03T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2007-01-03T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T08:38:00","slug":"bibles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"Bibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/rev_e.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">rev_e<\/a> for the tip:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/03\/AR2007010300075_pf.html\">This article<\/a> indicates that Keith Ellison (the first Muslim elected to congress) will be taking his ceremonial, unofficial, photo-op oath of office with his hand, not just on a Koran, but on the very copy of the Koran personally owned by Thomas Jefferson.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that the official, legally binding oath is taken with ones hand raised in the air, and not on any holy book whatsoever &#8230; as God intended.<\/p>\n<p>The man has political chops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to rev_e for the tip:<\/p>\n<p>This article indicates that Keith Ellison (the first Muslim elected to congress) will be taking his ceremonial, unofficial, photo-op oath of office with his hand, not just on a Koran, but on the very copy of the Koran personally owned by Thomas Jefferson. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that the <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1470\">Bibles<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}