{"id":472,"date":"2010-11-27T05:57:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-11-27T05:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T05:57:01","slug":"french-secularism-laicite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/french-secularism-laicite\/","title":{"rendered":"French Secularism &#8211; Laicite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBc has an interesting page on the concept of laicity, that is our own brand of secularism:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A2903663\">BBC &#8211; h2g2 &#8211; French Secularism &#8211; Laicite<\/a>. It underlines the importance of history to understand the French mindset. One of the key sentences is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: small;\">However, because of past precedent it is very easy for the French to interpret any strong religious views as a direct threat to their freedom and way of life, even when this is not the intention.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBc has an interesting page on the concept of laicity, that is our own brand of secularism:\u00c2\u00a0BBC &#8211; h2g2 &#8211; French Secularism &#8211; Laicite. It underlines the importance of history to understand the French mindset. One of the key sentences is: However, because of past precedent it is very easy for the French to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/french-secularism-laicite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;French Secularism &#8211; Laicite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}