{"id":2964,"date":"2021-10-03T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/a-city-in-flames-a-new-book-explores-an\/"},"modified":"2021-10-03T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:00:35","slug":"a-city-in-flames-a-new-book-explores-an","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/a-city-in-flames-a-new-book-explores-an\/","title":{"rendered":"A City In Flames: A New Book Explores An Overlooked Chapter Of Religious Intolerance In America"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation<\/em> by Zachary M. Schrag. Pegasus Books, 414 pp.<\/p>\n<p>In early May 1844, the citizens of Philadelphia rioted for several days, in part over tensions between Catholics and Protestants over what sort of religious exercises would occur in the city\u2019s public schools. People were killed, and property damage was extensive. A few months later, the riots started up again and were quelled only after the militia fired on the rioters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[92],"cs_article_type":[163],"class_list":["post-2964","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-october-2021-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-books-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}