{"id":2514,"date":"2008-08-14T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/08\/14\/rejecting-tithe\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:51:26","slug":"rejecting-tithe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/08\/rejecting-tithe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejecting tithe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">ORANGE PARK, FL &#8212; After Robert Powell hit the Florida Lottery jackpot last month and took home more than $6 million, he thought of his church.<\/p>\n<p>And he offered to drop his tithe, around $600,000, in the collection plate of First Baptist Orange Park.<\/p>\n<p>But the church and Pastor David Tarkington politely declined and told Powell they will not accept the lottery winnings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Hey Mr. Powell have you considered crossing the Tiber?  Donations from lottery money, hey we&#8217;re down with that (with the caveat expressed in CCC 2413).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGE PARK, FL &#8212; After Robert Powell hit the Florida Lottery jackpot last month and took home more than $6 million, he thought of his church. And he offered to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}