{"id":965,"date":"2002-08-05T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2002-08-05T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/05\/john-ashcroft-son-of-a-preacher-man\/"},"modified":"2002-08-05T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2002-08-05T17:18:54","slug":"john-ashcroft-son-of-a-preacher-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/05\/john-ashcroft-son-of-a-preacher-man","title":{"rendered":"John Ashcroft: Son of a Preacher Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August 4th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/chronicle\/\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> has a fascinating article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/ag\/ashcroftbio.html\">John Ashcroft<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2002\/08\/04\/IN136349.DTL\">Son of a Preacher Man<\/a>. The article is pretty factual, although the journalist\u2019s dislike of Ashcroft\u2019s value system shows through.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn\u2019t know it, John Ashcroft (our current U.S. Attorney General) is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag.org\/\">Assemblies of God<\/a> layperson, and his father <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chialpha.com\/history.html\">J. Robert Ashcroft was responsible for the founding of Chi Alpha<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August 4th San Francisco Chronicle has a fascinating article on John Ashcroft called Son of a Preacher Man. The article is pretty factual, although the journalist\u2019s dislike of Ashcroft\u2019s value system shows through. In case you didn\u2019t know it, John Ashcroft (our current U.S. Attorney General) is an Assemblies of God layperson, and his \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/05\/john-ashcroft-son-of-a-preacher-man\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cJohn Ashcroft: Son of a Preacher Man\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}