{"id":12732,"date":"2012-02-09T16:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:43:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:43:54","slug":"eddie-long-apologizes-to-jewish-community-for-crowning-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12732","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Long Apologizes To Jewish Community For &#8216;Crowning&#8217; Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled church leader <strong>Eddie Long<\/strong> has apologized for participating in a ceremony at his church where he was declared a king and wrapped in a &#8220;Holocaust Torah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ceremony was not my suggestion, nor was it my intent, to participate in any ritual that is offensive in any manner to the Jewish community, or any group,&#8221;said <strong>Long<\/strong> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Furthermore, I sincerely denounce any action that depicts me as a King, for I am merely just a servant of the Lord&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The apology came in the form of a letter to <strong>Bill Nigut<\/strong>, southeast regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled church leader Eddie Long has apologized for participating in a ceremony at his church where he was declared a king and wrapped in a &#8220;Holocaust Torah.&#8221; &#8220;The ceremony was not my suggestion, nor was it my intent, to participate in any ritual that is offensive in any manner to the Jewish community, or any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}