{"id":157171,"date":"2025-12-23T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=157171"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:39:07","slug":"nc-man-dismantles-charlotte-churchs-nativity-scene-in-support-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=157171","title":{"rendered":"NC Man Dismantles Charlotte Church&#8217;s Nativity Scene in Support of ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/news\/local\/charlotte-church-nativity-scene-dismantled-ice-agents-arresting-holy-family-immigration-protest\/275-967eb105-ea25-4f71-9f2c-75e6892ddd3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WCNC<\/a>: &#8220;A Charlotte church&#8217;s Nativity scene featuring mannequins dressed as ICE agents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The incident happened on Thursday at Missiongathering Church near Optimist Hall. The church partnered with an art collective to create the Nativity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A church official said the point is to make people think about ICE raids and immigration enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The church has since restored the display and says it won&#8217;t press charges because nothing was broken or damaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCNC: &#8220;A Charlotte church&#8217;s Nativity scene featuring mannequins dressed as ICE agents.&nbsp; The incident happened on Thursday at Missiongathering Church near Optimist Hall. The church partnered with an art collective to create the Nativity.&nbsp; A church official said the point is to make people think about ICE raids and immigration enforcement.\u00a0 The church has since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157172,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157171\/revisions\/157172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}