{"id":56760,"date":"2026-05-02T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/02\/opinion-why-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-crucial-for-democracy-springfield-news-sun\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:25:00","slug":"opinion-why-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-crucial-for-democracy-springfield-news-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/02\/opinion-why-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-crucial-for-democracy-springfield-news-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Why the separation of church and state is crucial for democracy &#8211; Springfield News-Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_wFBVV95cUxNS0pxbklFTkxBZ2FreUJhdVBQbU5oQXFubTZSdjRYUjlwQ3IxZ0d5T29qVlQ0NzdaV1dQa3FPaHBuTlJpbU1pMGZBZVFZTVFEMGpNTmJGemloeWJfVS1hdVNIVy1IMndXVDBzek56UEk0d3NzY24yb0xxYXZaVDJPTGxWNE5tOUdELUMtTEJxNEVzQUwxejItYjBudEVhT2pKV3d6VDZhMlVfT0VoM3dJS005LVBVblZjbC1kZkI3YXVhOWVuMENTU3B2R0IyTXZldU9XX2hNdFZjcGNtU200bHpRZ29abWJsWkM0NUh4ZlZySWlWckEwTl9CMEJiVmM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">OPINION: Why the separation of church and state is crucial for democracy<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Springfield News-Sun<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: Why the separation of church and state is crucial for democracy&nbsp;&nbsp;Springfield News-Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}