{"id":631360,"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.com\/index\/631360","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":1567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Efe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}