{"id":903,"date":"2015-04-29T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2015-04-29T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:27:56","slug":"quote-for-the-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a column about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/steve_duin\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/steve_duin_memory_and_moral_su.html?utm_content=buffer00f7a&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">sexual abuse trial<\/a> of Pastor Mike Sperou.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Church loyalists and Steven J. Sherlag, Sperou&#8217;s attorney, argue that only memory has been corrupted here. Memory is &#8220;dynamic,&#8221; Sherlag claims, evolving or eroding each time a group of seven women compare notes on how often their pastor was drunk, drug-addled or making out with their mother.<\/p>\n<p>But you only need to listen to Sperou&#8217;s defenders to realize how boundaries in this community were obliterated by <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the demand for subservience and the desire for acceptance<\/span>, no matter how perverse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a column about the sexual abuse trial of Pastor Mike Sperou. Church loyalists and Steven J. Sherlag, Sperou&#8217;s attorney, argue that only memory has been corrupted here. Memory is &#8220;dynamic,&#8221; Sherlag claims, evolving or eroding each time a group &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=903\">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\/903"}],"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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}