{"id":6594,"date":"2004-08-13T13:04:03","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/13\/dreadlockup\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T18:04:03","slug":"dreadlockup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/dreadlockup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreadlockup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">A Bensalem man with dreadlocks serving time at a Pennsylvania prison has sued the state Corrections Department, saying its grooming policy violates his right to religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Larry Meggett, 54, described as a Hebrew Israelite\/Nazarite, sued after Mahanoy state prison authorities turned down his request for an exemption to a rule limiting &#8220;Afro styles&#8221; of hair to no longer than 4 inches. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/pb-dyn\/news\/111-08132004-347466.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">So to cut his hair according to the understanding of his belief is HAIResy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bensalem man with dreadlocks serving time at a Pennsylvania prison has sued the state Corrections Department, saying its grooming policy violates his right to religious freedom. Larry Meggett, 54,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}