{"id":1989,"date":"2011-11-21T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2011-11-23T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:51:49","slug":"ofg-giant-super-power-butthurt-in-clearwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/21\/ofg-giant-super-power-butthurt-in-clearwater\/","title":{"rendered":"OFG! Giant Super Power Butthurt in Clearwater."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the Saint Petersburg Times trolls Scientology and their center of the\u00a0universe\u00a0in nearby Clearwater.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Giant &#8216;Super Power&#8217; building in Clearwater takes a pause, yet millions keep flowing in<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/writers\/joe-childs\">Joe Childs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/writers\/thomas-c-tobin\">Thomas C. Tobin<\/a>, Times Staff Writers<br \/>\nIn Print: Monday, November 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?attachment_id=1997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997 alignnone\" title=\"a4s_1alead_112111_199649c\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/a4s_1alead_112111_199649c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seven-story Super Power building, also known as the Flag Building, sits on a full city block across the street from the taller Fort Harrison Hotel. In the foreground is the church\u2019s power plant (L-shaped orange roof). It will heat and cool Super Power. Next to it is the church\u2019s parking garage, both styled in the Mediterranean Revival architecture of the other church buildings. Scientology plans to build a seven-story, 3,500-seat auditorium on property it owns south of Super Power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong>aybe they&#8217;re out of money.<\/p>\n<p>That speculation \u2014 irresistible to many Scientology watchers in Clearwater \u2014 never died after the church suddenly stopped construction on its massive, downtown &#8220;Super Power&#8221; building.<\/p>\n<p>The church had spent five years and $45 million erecting the shell of the seven-story colossus that covers an entire city block. But in 2003 it shifted the project into idle, offering little explanation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/scientology\/article1202006.ece\" target=\"_blank\">[[[[Much much More!]]]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the Saint Petersburg Times trolls Scientology and their center of the\u00a0universe\u00a0in nearby Clearwater.Giant &#8216;Super Power&#8217; building in Clearwater takes a pause, yet millions keep flowing in By\u00a0Joe Childs\u00a0and\u00a0Thomas C. Tobin, Times Staff Writers In Print: Monday, November 21, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/21\/ofg-giant-super-power-butthurt-in-clearwater\/\">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-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","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=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}