{"id":397516,"date":"2010-03-06T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=13320"},"modified":"2010-03-06T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:15:52","slug":"reverend-wright%e2%80%99s-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/397516","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Wright\u2019s Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s one of the best known religious leaders in the nation, President Obama&#8217;s former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. \u00a0His sometimes controversial, fiery sermons have lasted for hours at times&#8230; but when Wright was paired up with Nation of Islam&#8217;s Louis Farrakhan and Catholic priest, Father Michael Pfleger, there wasn&#8217;t much said. \u00a0In fact, the three sat quietly together, in the audience\u00a0at Chicago&#8217;s historic Regal Theatre, as honorees for a fundraiser called &#8220;Living Legends, Educating 365&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred people paid between $40-$100 for tickets to the show, and entered through doors with entrances separated for males and females. \u00a0As is typical for public events involving Farrakhan, members of the public were padded down by security and &#8220;wanded&#8221; for metals as they came through the door. \u00a0 Inside, Wright sold and signed copies of his latest book, &#8220;A Sankofa Moment. \u00a0The History of Trinity United Church of Christ&#8221;, for $25. \u00a0 Wright&#8217;s daughter Jeri hosted the program, which included musical acts and comedy. \u00a0Proceeds go to charities lead by the 3 honorees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s one of the best known religious leaders in the nation, President Obama&#8217;s former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. \u00a0His sometimes controversial, fiery sermons have lasted for hours at times&#8230; but when Wright was paired up with Nation of Islam&#8217;s Louis Farrakhan and Catholic priest, Father Michael Pfleger, there wasn&#8217;t much said. \u00a0In fact, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397516","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\/4916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}