{"id":564,"date":"2009-03-06T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/06\/phelps-hate-church-inspires-the-north-country\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T02:50:00","slug":"phelps-hate-church-inspires-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/06\/phelps-hate-church-inspires-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Phelps&#8217; hate church inspires the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Phelps&#8217; vicious band of agitators has once again slouched into Plattsburgh.  The good news is that everybody pretty much has these goofballs&#8217; number by now.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the virulently homophobic Phelps organization has sparked some pretty remarkable and heartwarming allegiances over the years. <\/p>\n<p>When you manage to get gay rights groups, churches, the VFW, and all political persuasions working together, that&#8217;s a weirdly wonderful accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Phelps claims he&#8217;s trying to usher in a holier and more moral America.  The great irony is that he&#8217;s succeeding.  Not by example, but by provoking our better instincts as a society. <\/p>\n<p>As the Phelps clan drifts away to their next vitriol-fest, I can&#8217;t help but feel real compassion for them.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe some small part of the North Country&#8217;s beauty and neighborliness will rub off on them and bring a glimmer of grace to their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Phelps&#8217; vicious band of agitators has once again slouched into Plattsburgh. The good news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}