{"id":325,"date":"2013-06-15T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/2013\/06\/15\/appearance-on-wnep-tv-16-june-14-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-06-15T23:15:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T23:15:15","slug":"appearance-on-wnep-tv-16-june-14-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/2013\/06\/15\/appearance-on-wnep-tv-16-june-14-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Vacula on WNEP-TV 16 \u2013 June 14, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnep.com\">WNEP-TV 16<\/a> \u2014 a television news station serving Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania \u2014 covered Justin Vacula&#8217;s objection to government-led prayer at the June 13, 2013 Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>For extensive details concerning Vacula&#8217;s objection, please read his reasoning in a piece titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2013\/06\/15\/wbprayer\/\">Why I object to government-led prayers at Wilkes-Barre City Council meetings<\/a>.\u201d Watch the video of my news appearance below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justin Vacula on WNEP-TV 16 - June 14, 2013\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQ-44LzqIys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are some slight errors and concerns with the the video:<br \/>\nVacula&#8217;s last name is pronounced VUH \u2013 COOL \u2013 UH, not VACK-YOU-LUH.<br \/>\nThere is no reason to call Vacula a \u201cself-proclaimed atheist.\u201d<br \/>\nVacula is the co-organizer and spokesperson of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nepafreethought.org\">NEPA Freethought Society<\/a>, not the founder.<br \/>\nFreethought is one word, not two.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to WNEP-TV 16 for covering this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNEP-TV 16 \u2014 a television news station serving Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania \u2014 covered Justin Vacula&#8217;s objection to government-led prayer at the June 13, 2013 Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting. For extensive details concerning Vacula&#8217;s objection, please read his reasoning in a piece titled \u201cWhy I object to government-led prayers at Wilkes-Barre City Council meetings.\u201d Watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}