{"id":24091,"date":"2011-01-20T04:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T04:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/university_of_kentucky_settles_lawsuit_from_astronomer\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T04:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T04:02:32","slug":"university_of_kentucky_settles_lawsuit_from_astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24091","title":{"rendered":"(AP) University of Kentucky settles lawsuit from astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An astronomy professor who sued the University of Kentucky after claiming he lost out on a top job because of his Christian beliefs reached a settlement Tuesday with the school.<\/p>\n<p>The university agreed to pay $125,000 to Martin Gaskell in exchange for dropping a federal religious discrimination suit he filed in Lexington in 2009. A trial was set for next month.<\/p>\n<p>Gaskell is currently working as a research fellow in the astronomy department at the University of Texas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/nation\/7386806.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astronomy professor who sued the University of Kentucky after claiming he lost out on a top job because of his Christian beliefs reached a settlement Tuesday with the school. The university agreed to pay $125,000 to Martin Gaskell in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24091\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}