{"id":2865,"date":"2008-04-22T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/22\/these-people-theyre-out-there\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:30:59","slug":"these-people-theyre-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/22\/these-people-theyre-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"These People&#8230; They&#8217;re Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/news\/15948849\/detail.html\">Pastor Roger Byrd <\/a>said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.<\/p>\n<p>It reads: &#8220;Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Byrd said that the message wasn&#8217;t meant to be racial or political.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in there that does not believe in Jesus Christ,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he believes that Barack Obama is Muslim, Byrd said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. See it asks a question: Are they brothers? In other words, is he Muslim ? I don&#8217;t know. He says he&#8217;s not. I hope he&#8217;s not. But I don&#8217;t know. And it&#8217;s just something to try to stir people&#8217;s minds. It was never intended to hurt feelings or to offend anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Well.\u00c2\u00a0 Stick quotation marks around &#8220;pastor&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Consider the controvery stirred, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>In other news of the Apocalypse:\u00c2\u00a0 Obama, McCain, and Clinton made a speak into the World Wrestliing Federation.\u00c2\u00a0 That settles it: our politics are dead and ridiculous.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m voting for Nader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God. It reads: &#8220;Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?&#8221; Byrd said that the message wasn&#8217;t meant to be racial or political. &#8220;It&#8217;s simply to cause people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}