{"id":84271,"date":"2019-07-28T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84271"},"modified":"2019-07-28T06:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T10:45:16","slug":"sunday-london-times-police-offer-2500-to-preacher-whose-bible-they-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84271","title":{"rendered":"[Sunday [London] Times) Police offer \u00a32,500 to preacher whose Bible they took"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian street preacher who was arrested for breach of the peace and had his Bible confiscated has been offered a \u00a32,500 payout by the Metropolitan police.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the arrest of Oluwole Ilesanmi, showing him pleading with police \u201cdon\u2019t take my Bible away\u201d, has been viewed online almost 3m times.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, he will hand a petition to the Home Office, signed by 38,000 people, asking for greater protection for street preachers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/police-offer-2-500-to-preacher-whose-bible-they-took-sk2tkjj9g\">Read it all<\/a> 9subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Police offer \u00a32,500 to preacher whose Bible they took <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yn3GsQsnRf\">https:\/\/t.co\/yn3GsQsnRf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Landrum (@DrDaveLandrum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrDaveLandrum\/status\/1155405339434639361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian street preacher who was arrested for breach of the peace and had his Bible confiscated has been offered a \u00a32,500 payout by the Metropolitan police. Footage of the arrest of Oluwole Ilesanmi, showing him pleading with police \u201cdon\u2019t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84271\">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":[199,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84271","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=84271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84274,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84271\/revisions\/84274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}