{"id":8601,"date":"2015-12-13T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/gospel-singer-kirk-franklin-apologizes-for-church-based-homophobia\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T21:55:47","slug":"gospel-singer-kirk-franklin-apologizes-for-church-based-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/gospel-singer-kirk-franklin-apologizes-for-church-based-homophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Gospel<\/b> Singer Kirk Franklin Apologizes for Church-Based Homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><b>Gospel<\/b> Singer Kirk Franklin Apologizes for Church-Based Homophobia<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring an interview with The Grio, the 45-year-old Franklin, one of gospel music&#39;s most high-profile artists, shared his thoughts about the religious bigotry he&#39;s seen LGBT people experience. &quot;I want to apologize for all of the hurtful and painful &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/religion\/2015\/11\/18\/gospel-singer-kirk-franklin-apologizes-church-based-homophobia\">Advocate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Babymetal Confirm Brand New Studio Album<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230; Confirm Brand New Studio Album. By James On December 13, 2015 &#8211; 2 hours ago &#8230; are shaping the future of music as we know it. Prepare to have your minds blown by the 22 artists safeguarding and shaping rock&#39;s brilliantly bright future. &#8230; More &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/38754\/babymetal-confirm-brand-new-studio-album\/\">Kerrang!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel Singer Kirk Franklin Apologizes for Church-Based Homophobia During an interview with The Grio, the 45-year-old Franklin, one of gospel music&#39;s most high-profile artists, shared [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1240,1241,1239,182,1242,1238,327],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apologizes","tag-churchbased","tag-franklin","tag-gospel","tag-homophobia","tag-kirk","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}