{"id":182680,"date":"2010-01-15T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1045669"},"modified":"2010-01-15T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:15:13","slug":"pat-robertson-disgusts-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182680","title":{"rendered":"Pat Robertson Disgusts me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>During a broadcast on his Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr Robertson suggested the Haiti&#8217;s earthquake was divine retribution.<br \/>\nHe said Haiti had sworn a pact with the devil when it freed itself from French colonial rule.<br \/>\nThe White House said the comments were completely inappropriate.<br \/>\n&quot;It never ceases to amaze, that in times of amazing human suffering, somebody says something that could be so utterly stupid,&quot; Mr Gibbs said.<br \/>\n&quot;But it, like clockwork, happens with some regularity.&quot;<br \/>\nMr Robertson, an 80-year-old former presidential candidate, made the comments on Wednesday on his programme, &quot;The 700 Club&quot;.<br \/>\n&quot;They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it&#8217;s a deal,&quot; the televangelist said during the broadcast.<br \/>\n&quot;Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other,&quot; he added, comparing Haiti to its more prosperous neighbour, the Dominican Republic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a broadcast on his Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr Robertson suggested the Haiti&#8217;s earthquake was divine retribution. He said Haiti had sworn a pact with the devil when it freed itself from French colonial rule. The White House said the comments were completely inappropriate. &quot;It never ceases to amaze, that in times of amazing human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}