{"id":2473,"date":"2015-10-19T14:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2015-10-19T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T18:08:03","slug":"why-the-pastor-brings-his-glock-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Why the pastor brings his Glock to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pointed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2460\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a> toward a story from Detroit, this one involving a pastor who shot a guy who apparently charged the pulpit with a brick in his hand.  The man&#8217;s beef, turns out, was that the pastor may have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2015\/10\/18\/pastor-kills-brick-wielding-man-during-church-service\/74190782\/\" target=\"_blank\">spreading more than the Good News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Smith had <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">ranted on Facebook that his pastor had gotten his wife pregnant<\/span>, weeks before police say he showed up with the brick Sunday during church service and attacked the minister.<\/p>\n<p>Two Detroit police sources said detectives were investigating a possible love triangle between Smith, his wife and their pastor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well &#8230; who knows?  The complainant is dead, the pastor is cooperative, the shooting happened in plain sight of a couple dozen people, and the city is broke; there is exactly zero probability that there will be a DNA test.  The story is certainly believable; some surveys place the rate of pastoral fooling-around at over 50 <i>per cent<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>But if the pastor took the man&#8217;s wife, and then his life, it won&#8217;t affect the congregation&#8217;s devotion to him in the least.  Dude carries a Glock!  Now <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> a shepherd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pointed yesterday toward a story from Detroit, this one involving a pastor who shot a guy who apparently charged the pulpit with a brick in his hand. The man&#8217;s beef, turns out, was that the pastor may have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2473\">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\/2473"}],"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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}