{"id":151,"date":"2008-08-17T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-08-17T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:44:17","slug":"just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-fly-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-fly-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Just when you thought it was safe to fly again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/2525649\/Pastors-wife-in-court-over-air-stewardess-assault.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Osteen<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/story?id=5586434&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">cleared of assault charges<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/US\/37acb655-b76d-4d8b-a23c-c6b5a17dd5ac_mn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Victoria Osteen, the glamorous wife of Joel Osteen, pastor of Houston&#8217;s Lakewood Church, which has a congregation of around 40,000, is accused of slamming Sharon Brown against a bathroom door and elbowing her in the breast during the outburst.<br \/>\nThe Continental Airlines stewardess is demanding an apology and 10 percent of Mrs Osteen&#8217;s net worth in damages for the anxiety and suffering she claims the incident caused. The resulting distress included a crisis of faith, post traumatic stress and haemorrhoids, Ms Brown alleges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thing that is even mildly interesting in this 21st C. litigious sciamachy is: how often are haemorrhoids induced by an elbow in the breast? I want to know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">My curiosity about the journey from poke to pile is not anatomical prurience: if, heaven forbid, it proves reversible, the answer could avert an impending deluge of chest-pain lawsuits brought about by sitting on the punishingly hard pews of the average Anglican church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Victoria Osteen was cleared of assault charges. Victoria Osteen, the glamorous wife of Joel Osteen, pastor of Houston&#8217;s Lakewood Church, which has a congregation of around 40,000, is accused of slamming Sharon Brown against a bathroom door &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-fly-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1400],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daft","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}