{"id":100,"date":"2014-08-08T01:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-08-08T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T02:45:27","slug":"100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Mary&#8217;s Prayer Discount Nipped in the Bud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/prayer-discount1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/prayer-discount1-300x186.jpg?resize=439%2C272\" alt=\"prayer\" width=\"439\" height=\"272\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The now well-known Mary&#8217;s Gourmet Diner in Winston Salem has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsitter.com\/view_news2_id_179349.php\" target=\"_blank\">quickly been forced to end the discount<\/a> the owners were happy to provide to customers who said their prayers before meals. That is of course, a flagrant violation of the rights of non-prayers and the owners were so instructed by some entities from out of town, who then threatened them with a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Mary\u2019s was compelled to place a handwritten note encouraging patrons to \u2018protect your freedom from religion on a public space,\u2019 as well as make an apology for &#8220;any offense this discount has incurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mary\u2019s Manager says that nevertheless, \u201cWe have things to be thankful for and we like to give thanks regardless of a discount or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The now well-known Mary&#8217;s Gourmet Diner in Winston Salem has quickly been forced to end the discount the owners were happy to provide to customers who said their prayers before meals. That is of course, a flagrant violation of the rights of non-prayers and the owners were so instructed by some entities from out <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-15-discount-pray","tag-marys-restaurant"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}