{"id":12736,"date":"2016-05-14T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=12736"},"modified":"2016-05-14T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:47:22","slug":"silent-protest-at-general-conference-umcgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/silent-protest-at-general-conference-umcgc\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Protest at General Conference #UMCGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Video by Rev. David Valera, PNW Dir.\u00a0of Connectional Ministries<br \/>\n<\/strong>May 14, 2016 | PORTLAND, Oregon<\/h4>\n<p>During the plenary session at General Conference on Saturday, May 14, a protest was held on and surrounding the conference floor. It began with a moment of personal privilege from Fred Brewington, delegate from the New York Annual Conference. <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/umcgc?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rev. David Valera captured video from the scene and spoke with Bishop Cynthia Harvey who offered a prayer in response. Bishop Harvey was the presiding officer of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video by Rev. David Valera, PNW Dir.\u00a0of Connectional Ministries May 14, 2016 | PORTLAND, Oregon During the plenary session at General Conference on Saturday, May 14, a protest was held on and surrounding the conference floor. It began with a moment of personal privilege from Fred Brewington, delegate from the New York Annual Conference. \u202a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[449,32,443],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-conference","8":"category-news","9":"category-video","10":"post_format-post-format-video"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/maxresdefault-7.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-3jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12740,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions\/12740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}