{"id":124935,"date":"2022-09-16T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/he-could-be-our-first-jewish-president-but-first-he-needs-to-beat-a-christian-nationalist"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:30:00","slug":"he-could-be-our-first-jewish-president-but-first-he-needs-to-beat-a-christian-nationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/he-could-be-our-first-jewish-president-but-first-he-needs-to-beat-a-christian-nationalist","title":{"rendered":"He Could Be Our First Jewish President. But First He Needs to Beat a Christian Nationalist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Shapiro after speaking at the Greater Mt. Olive AME Church in West Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 10, 2022. | Photograph by Michelle Gustafson for POLITICO PHILADELPHIA &#8212; In one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the poorest big cities in the country, blocks away from where a woman was gunned down just the day before, Josh Shapiro is singing with a group of Black pastors. Shapiro, a type-A attorney general running to be the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, rocks in his pew. When a reverend asks the churchgoers to lift up their voices, he looks her in the eye and finishes her sentence, pronouncing &#8220;me&#8221; when she croons, &#8220;What God has for me, it is for me.&#8221; He then proceeds to give a 30-minute speech that was supposed to be closer to half as long. Unlike some before him, Josh Shapiro hasn&#8217;t downplayed his religion out of a fear of appearing different. To the contrary, he&#8217;s made his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devoutly Jewish, Josh Shapiro wants to persuade voters that his opponent&#8217;s Christian nationalism doesn&#8217;t represent the values of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,69,55],"class_list":["post-124935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}