{"id":26925,"date":"2009-08-19T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/19\/religious-bus-driver-suspended\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:45:34","slug":"religious-bus-driver-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/religious-bus-driver-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Bus Driver Suspended in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Des Moines bus driver has been suspended for refusing to drive a bus with a pro atheist ad on the outside. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/20459245\/detail.html\"> The story is here.<\/a>  There is also a poll at that location that you may want to answer.  Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/08\/crazy_bus_driver_gets_panties.php\">Pharyngula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Angela Shiel was suspended on Monday after she refused to drive a bus with an Iowa Atheists &#038; Freethinkers ad on its side. The ad reads &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe in God? You are not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shiel says the message is against her Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>The transit authority removed the ads earlier this month after complaints from riders, then reversed course after meeting with the atheist group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Des Moines bus driver has been suspended for refusing to drive a bus with a pro atheist ad on the outside. The story is here. There is also a poll at that location that you may want to answer. Hat tip Pharyngula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-70h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}