{"id":4186,"date":"2016-07-15T06:36:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2016-07-15T06:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T10:36:45","slug":"nones-overtake-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nones&#8217; overtake Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;nones&#8217; &#8212; those without any religious affiliation, though not necessarily atheist or agnostic &#8212; have overtaken Catholics as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/07\/14\/the-non-religious-are-now-the-countrys-largest-religious-voting-bloc\/?postshare=1201468521743395&#038;tid=ss_fb\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s largest religious identification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More American voters than ever say they are not religious, making the religiously unaffiliated the nation&#8217;s biggest voting bloc by faith for the first time in a presidential election year. This marks a dramatic shift from just eight years ago, when the non-religious were roundly outnumbered by Catholics, white mainline Protestants and white evangelical Protestants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;nones&#8217; &#8212; those without any religious affiliation, though not necessarily atheist or agnostic &#8212; have overtaken Catholics as America&#8217;s largest religious identification. More American voters than ever say they are not religious, making the religiously unaffiliated the nation&#8217;s biggest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}