{"id":1920,"date":"2011-10-04T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T00:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2011-10-04T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T00:21:43","slug":"philip-boyd-saving-grace-actor-rips-the-business-that-is-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/10\/04\/philip-boyd-saving-grace-actor-rips-the-business-that-is-scientology\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Boyd, Saving Grace Actor, Rips &#8220;The Business That Is Scientology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/PhilipBoyd2.jpg\" alt=\"PhilipBoyd2.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"314\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If I could save one person from buying into the business that is Scientology, then it would be worth you writing my story.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how actor Philip Boyd concluded an interview that I didn&#8217;t even expect to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Let me back up: I&#8217;m in Southern California for a school visit, and with some free time on my hands, I went to Santa Monica to meet some folks I talk to for our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/scientology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientology stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Through something of an accident, however, I was introduced to Boyd, an up-and-coming actor who has appeared or had recurring roles in several series (<em>Saving Grace, Franklin and Bash, Knight Rider<\/em>) and movies (<em>Deadland, First Daughter<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2011\/10\/philip_boyd_sav.php\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I could save one person from buying into the business that is Scientology, then it would be worth you writing my story.&#8221; That&#8217;s how actor Philip Boyd concluded an interview that I didn&#8217;t even expect to happen. Let me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/10\/04\/philip-boyd-saving-grace-actor-rips-the-business-that-is-scientology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}