{"id":2554,"date":"2008-09-11T21:40:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T02:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/09\/11\/black-collar-market\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T21:40:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T02:40:59","slug":"black-collar-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/09\/black-collar-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Collar Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">URBANA, Ill. (AP) A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Christopher Layden pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church and one count of possession with intent to deliver 1 to 15 grams of cocaine near a church.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was arrested Wednesday at St. John&#8217;s Catholic Newman Center after investigators found 3 grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia while searching his home and office. His bond was set at $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Diocese of Peoria says it has suspended Layden.<\/p>\n<p>It is sad when a priest succumbs to substance abuse, but dealing? There has to be a Newman Center joke in here somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URBANA, Ill. (AP) A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory. The Reverend Christopher Layden pleaded not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}