{"id":308,"date":"2014-07-14T05:08:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=308"},"modified":"2014-07-14T05:08:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:08:55","slug":"newsweek-article-american-quakers-are-running-an-underground-railroad-to-help-lgbt-ugandans-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/newsweek-article-american-quakers-are-running-an-underground-railroad-to-help-lgbt-ugandans-flee\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek article: American Quakers are Running an &#8216;Underground Railroad&#8217; to Help LGBT Ugandans Flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American Quakers are Running an &#8216;Underground Railroad&#8217; to Help LGBT Ugandans Flee<\/strong><br \/>\nNewsweek &#8211; By Zo\u00eb Schlanger &#8211; Filed: 7\/11\/14 at 11:45 AM<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A group of American Quakers are operating what they call a \u201cnew underground railroad\u201d to help a few LGBT Ugandans flee their country, where a recent law imposes harsh penalties for homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Friends New Underground Railroad (FNUR), based in Washington state, sees itself as continuing the work of Quakers who historically helped slaves escape the American South.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the article and comments:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-quakers-are-running-underground-railroad-help-lgbt-ugandans-flee-258363\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-quakers-are-running-underground-railroad-help-lgbt-ugandans-flee-258363<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Quakers are Running an &#8216;Underground Railroad&#8217; to Help LGBT Ugandans Flee Newsweek &#8211; By Zo\u00eb Schlanger &#8211; Filed: 7\/11\/14 at 11:45 AM &#8220;A group of American Quakers are operating what they call a \u201cnew underground railroad\u201d to help a few LGBT Ugandans flee their country, where a recent law imposes harsh penalties for homosexuality. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}