{"id":198256,"date":"2007-11-26T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/26\/oral-roberts-son-resigns-as-president-of-oral-roberts-university\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:58:00","slug":"oral-roberts-son-resigns-as-president-of-oral-roberts-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/26\/oral-roberts-son-resigns-as-president-of-oral-roberts-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Roberts&#8217; Son Resigns as President of Oral Roberts University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/11\/embattled_oral_roberts_preside.php\">Shades of Elmer Gantry<\/a>.  They go into the more prosaic stuff, like a nearly $40 thousand shopping spree, and a nearly $30 thousand senior trip for his kids, repeatedly remodeling their home, and requiring students to work on a political campaign for a specific candidate.<\/p>\n<p>There are also allegations that his wife <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/gantry-gate.html\">had an inappropriate relationship with an underage student, or students<\/a>, at the university.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to be found, now that the rock has been turned over.  I could see a reprise of the Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker PTL ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shades of Elmer Gantry. They go into the more prosaic stuff, like a nearly $40 thousand shopping spree, and a nearly $30 thousand senior trip for his kids, repeatedly remodeling their home, and requiring students to work on a political campaign for a specific candidate. There are also allegations that his wife had an inappropriate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1051,1021,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-hypocrisy","category-religion","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}