{"id":1907,"date":"2015-10-30T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:12:49","slug":"october-18-democracy-use-it-or-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/30\/october-18-democracy-use-it-or-lose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"October 18: Democracy\u2014Use it or lose it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1745\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4.jpg\" alt=\"sermon-icon-oct4\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4.jpg 184w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sermon-icon-oct4-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1907-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10.18.15-Democracy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10.18.15-Democracy.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10.18.15-Democracy.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>At the intersection between faith and politics is the Unitarian Principle: We, the member congregations of the Canadian Unitarian Council, covenant to affirm and promote the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large. Two Beacon members explore what this means to them, their concerns and how it influences their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the intersection between faith and politics is the Unitarian Principle: We, the member congregations of the Canadian Unitarian Council, covenant to affirm and promote the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large. Two Beacon members explore what this means to them, their concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}