{"id":386,"date":"2009-11-10T22:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-11-10T22:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:49:02","slug":"religion-gets-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Religion gets in the way &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. of driving a bus!  First it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/7832647.stm\">no God Bus<\/a>.  Now it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2009\/11\/07\/Atlanta-bus-driver-suspended-for-praying\/UPI-61241257623242\/\">bus driver suspended for praying<\/a> which says &#8220;An Atlanta bus driver was suspended for insisting his passengers join him in a prayer, his employer says.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority spokesman Lyle V. Harris said LeRoy Matthews received a five-day furlough after passengers said he stopped his bus and asked all riders to hold hands and take part in a moment of prayer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified passenger said he was trying to get off the bus Tuesday, when Matthews made his prayer request.<\/p>\n<p>The impromptu prayer session on the public bus lasted at least 4 minutes and the focus of the prayer remained unclear, Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal-Constitution said Matthews has been a MARTA employee for six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. of driving a bus! First it was the no God Bus. Now it&#8217;s bus driver suspended for praying which says &#8220;An Atlanta bus driver was suspended for insisting his passengers join him in a prayer, his employer says. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority spokesman Lyle V. Harris said LeRoy Matthews received a five-day furlough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}