{"id":5684,"date":"2012-03-16T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T13:42:14","slug":"morning-read-north-country-pastor-says-no-to-going-green-for-st-pats-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/16\/morning-read-north-country-pastor-says-no-to-going-green-for-st-pats-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  North Country pastor says No to going green for St. Pat&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5686\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/wtownbaptist.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5686\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5686\" title=\"wtownbaptist\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/wtownbaptist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/wtownbaptist.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/wtownbaptist-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Baptist Church, Watertown--&quot;Not a billboard.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20120316\/NEWS03\/703159756\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting this morning that a Baptist pastor in Watertown is unhappy with a plan to light up his church tower with green spotlights as part of a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Irish festival.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rev. Jeffrey E. Smith&#8230;insists the green floodlights will give people the  perception he and his church condone the consumption of beer at this  weekend\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our house of worship. It is not a  billboard,\u201d he said. \u201cWe call our church \u2018the Lighthouse on the Square.\u2019  This cheapens our church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pastor said he believes the city  should have been more sensitive to his parishioners, some of whom are  recovering alcoholics and former drug users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you go.\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 Too grumpy by half?\u00a0 Or a good, solid principled stand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting this morning that a Baptist pastor in Watertown is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[878,4790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684"}],"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=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}