{"id":4656,"date":"2016-09-13T05:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2016-09-13T05:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T09:27:05","slug":"rallying-round-the-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Rallying &#8217;round the pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pattern holds: When an Ohio pastor was prosecuted for sex with a teenager in his church, members of his congregation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/index.ssf\/2016\/09\/extremely_delusional_north_olm.html\" target=\"_blank\">deluged the court<\/a> with letters of support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mitchell, who received about three-dozen letters of support given to the judge, apologized to the girl&#8217;s family and said he was sorry for what he did, not that he got caught.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pattern holds: When an Ohio pastor was prosecuted for sex with a teenager in his church, members of his congregation deluged the court with letters of support. Mitchell, who received about three-dozen letters of support given to the judge, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4656\">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\/4656"}],"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=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}