{"id":903,"date":"2021-04-20T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/?p=903"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:46:25","slug":"isaac-simmons-20-first-drag-queen-certified-as-candidate-for-united-methodist-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/2021\/04\/20\/isaac-simmons-20-first-drag-queen-certified-as-candidate-for-united-methodist-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Simmons &#8217;20 First Drag Queen Certified as Candidate for United Methodist Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-905 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/files\/2021\/04\/isaac-simmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/files\/2021\/04\/isaac-simmons.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/files\/2021\/04\/isaac-simmons-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>With unanimous certification, Isaac Simmons \u201920 is the first openly gay man to be certified within the Illinois Great Rivers Conference and the first known drag queen certified in the United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/04\/15\/first-drag-queen-certified-as-a-candidate-for-united-methodist-ministry-speaking-in-a-new-way-to-new-people\/\">First drag queen certified as a candidate for United Methodist ministry \u2018speaking in a new way to new people\u2019<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from Religion News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With unanimous certification, Isaac Simmons \u201920 is the first openly gay man to be certified within the Illinois Great Rivers Conference and the first known drag queen certified in the United Methodist Church. Read more on\u00a0First drag queen certified as a candidate for United Methodist ministry \u2018speaking in a new way to new people\u2019\u00a0from Religion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/titans-doing-well-good\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}