{"id":407,"date":"2008-05-07T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-05-07T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T20:40:53","slug":"local-ex-scientologist-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/05\/07\/local-ex-scientologist-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Local ex-Scientologist speaks out."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/guy\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" \/><\/h5>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0TIGER WEEKLY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt; font-size: 9px\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/tigerweekly.com\/article\/05-06-2008\/8413#comm\" style=\"color: #af0000\">25 Comment(s)<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666\">By  Kelley Cox<\/p>\n<p>There is a national media storm surrounding the Church of Scientology. Celebrity members have said Scientology saved their lives. Celebrity ex-member Jason Beghe spoke out against Scientology in a series of YouTube videos. There has been widespread criticism and debate among Scientology proponents and adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Weekly\u2019s own Web site was submerged in one such debate in response to an article published April 23, \u201cI visited the Scientology Center of Baton Rouge \u2026 and lived to write about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local ex-Scientologist Rhett Westerman recently shared his opinions and experiences with Scientology with Tiger Weekly. Westerman said he grew up in the Church of Scientology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents were involved [with Scientology] when I was little,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Westerman added that he was a Scientologist his \u201cwhole life, up until a few years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigerweekly.com\/article\/05-06-2008\/8413\">\u00a0[[[MOER]]]] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0TIGER WEEKLY [25 Comment(s)] By Kelley Cox There is a national media storm surrounding the Church of Scientology. Celebrity members have said Scientology saved their lives. Celebrity ex-member Jason Beghe spoke out against Scientology in a series of YouTube videos. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/05\/07\/local-ex-scientologist-speaks-out\/\">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-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}