{"id":36147,"date":"2016-08-26T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36147"},"modified":"2016-08-26T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:46:04","slug":"london-activists-j-k-rowling-react-to-burkini-ban-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/london-activists-j-k-rowling-react-to-burkini-ban-in-france.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;London activists, J.K. Rowling react to burkini ban in France&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36148\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/French_Embassy_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_645453.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36148\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36148\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/French_Embassy_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_645453.jpg\" alt=\"French embassy, London\" width=\"596\" height=\"403\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The embassy of France in London is located within walking distance of where I currently sit.<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some people fail to see much\u00a0difference between the United States\u00a0Constitution\u2019s prohibition of\u00a0the establishment of religion and French secularism, or <em>la\u00efcit\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are very distinct, as this story illustrates:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/25\/europe\/burkini-ban-protest-london-french-embassy\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/25\/europe\/burkini-ban-protest-london-french-embassy\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from London, England<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Some people fail to see much\u00a0difference between the United States\u00a0Constitution\u2019s prohibition of\u00a0the establishment of religion and French secularism, or la\u00efcit\u00e9. \u00a0 They are very distinct, as this story illustrates: \u00a0 http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/25\/europe\/burkini-ban-protest-london-french-embassy\/index.html \u00a0 Posted from London, England \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;London activists, J.K. 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