{"id":2149,"date":"2015-09-08T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2015-09-08T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:45:02","slug":"business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2149","title":{"rendered":"Business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though their pastor is in church for raping their children, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/oregon-church-carries-on-with-pastor-in-prison\/14882205\/\" target=\"_blank\">business-as-usual<\/a> for congregants at North Clackamas Bible Community.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite Pastor Mike Sperou occupying a cell at the Oregon State Penitentiary, the church is committed to carry on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really, there haven&#8217;t been any fundamental difference for us,&#8221; said Associate Pastor Kevin Mitchell. &#8220;We&#8217;re still doing what we&#8217;ve always done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What they&#8217;ve always done is rare \u2014 if not unique \u2014 among churches in the Portland area. Core members live communally in a network of rental homes that straddle the city limits of Happy Valley and Portland. Sunday services, along with weekly Bible study and language classes, are held in the homes.<\/p>\n<p>The church members are drawing strength in their belief, Mitchell said, that Sperou didn&#8217;t molest the daughter of church members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Call them &#8216;sheeple&#8217; though; I bet <i>that<\/i> would upset them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though their pastor is in church for raping their children, it&#8217;s business-as-usual for congregants at North Clackamas Bible Community. Despite Pastor Mike Sperou occupying a cell at the Oregon State Penitentiary, the church is committed to carry on. &#8220;Really, there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}