{"id":55,"date":"2011-11-17T21:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/?p=55"},"modified":"2011-11-17T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:29:10","slug":"elvis-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/2011\/11\/17\/elvis-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis &#8220;Religion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People going on a pilgrimage for the religion based on Elvis and his music is very odd.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard for many to view this as a religion.\u00a0 In all reality it has all the needs of how people define religion.\u00a0 People can view his music as being the myths and as is basically the foundation of the religion.\u00a0 There are tons of rituals that people perform while at Graceland for his death week.\u00a0 Part of the moral code while at Graceland people aren&#8217;t allowed in the room where Elvis died.\u00a0 There are many material possessions that were once Elvis&#8217; are now sacred to the people who follow the religion.\u00a0 As much as people would like to not think of this as a religion it is hard to deny that it is not.\u00a0 The main components of religion are expressed.\u00a0 I personally would not like to think of the Elvis Religion as being an actual religion but the facts say otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People going on a pilgrimage for the religion based on Elvis and his music is very odd.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard for many to view this as a religion.\u00a0 In all reality it has all the needs of how people define religion.\u00a0 People can view his music as being the myths and as is basically the foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}