{"id":3237,"date":"2020-07-01T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/tenn-rejects-bill-naming-bible\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:43:03","slug":"tenn-rejects-bill-naming-bible","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/tenn-rejects-bill-naming-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenn. Rejects Bill Naming Bible Official State Book"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill in Tennessee that would designate the Bible as the official state book failed June 19.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, HB 2778, was considered earlier this year but got derailed after the state legislature went out of session due to the coronavirus pandemic. Its primary sponsor is state Rep. Jerry Sexton (R-Bean Station).<\/p>\n<p>Former Gov. Bill Haslam (R) vetoed similar legislation four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[105],"cs_article_type":[157],"class_list":["post-3237","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-july-august-2020-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-au-bulletin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3237","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\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}