{"id":3247,"date":"2020-06-30T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/religious-freedom-by-george-read-touro\/"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:26:18","slug":"religious-freedom-by-george-read-touro","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/religious-freedom-by-george-read-touro\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom, By George! Read Touro Synagogue&#039;s 1790 Letter To George Washington And His Famous Reply"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> On Aug. 17, 1790, the members of a synagogue in Newport, R.I., wrote to President George Washington to express their views on freedom of worship. Washington replied a few days later in an eloquent statement outlining the importance of religious freedom in America. Both letters are reprinted here. The original spelling and grammar have been retained.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moses Seixas to George Washington: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[105],"cs_article_type":[160],"class_list":["post-3247","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-july-august-2020-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3247","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\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}