{"id":983,"date":"2004-06-23T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/halfbaked_moon_rising\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T16:20:26","slug":"halfbaked_moon_rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/halfbaked_moon_rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Baked Moon Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three months after the fact, and several weeks after it went around the blogosphere, the Washington Post<\/i><\/a> finally picked up with a prominent story on Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s coronation ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. In front of more than a dozen lawmakers:<\/p>\n

The Korean-born businessman and religious leader then delivered a long speech saying he was “sent to Earth . . . to save the world’s six billion people. . . . Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeff Gorenfeld<\/a> has offered in depth coverage and footage of the event.
\nOf course many of the legislators are now claiming they didn’t know what was going to transpire at the ceremony. I suppose that’s possible, but event organizer Archbishop George A. Stallings Jr. responds thusly:<\/p>\n

“You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not know that any event that is sponsored by the Washington Times<\/i> . . . could involve the influence, or the potential presence, of the Reverend Moon,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And accounts of the event don’t offer much about attendees walking out in protest.
\nI don’t know about you, but I’d like to know in a more timely manner when our representatives are involved in this type of weirdness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three months after the fact, and several weeks after it went around the blogosphere, the Washington Post finally picked up with a prominent story on Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s coronation ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. In front of more than a dozen lawmakers: The Korean-born businessman and religious leader then delivered a long […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}