{"id":169,"date":"2008-10-22T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-10-22T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:32:04","slug":"obama-representative-may-be-coming-to-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Obama representative may be coming to LU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">It looks like a representative of Obama&#8217;s campaign is getting closer to addressing students at Liberty University.\u00a0John McCain&#8217;s brother, Joe spoke at convocation last month.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Tuesday South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham spoke on McCain&#8217;s behalf.\u00a0Also Tuesday the director of Barack Obama&#8217;s Virginia office sent a letter to LU Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. offering to have an Obama representative come speak. Falwell formally extended an invitation for a representative in the campaign to come speak.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Now they&#8217;re working on the details on who will come and when, but it must be a national level spokesperson.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">By law, the school can keep its tax exempt status with political speakers, as long as both parties are asked.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like a representative of Obama&#8217;s campaign is getting closer to addressing students at Liberty University.\u00a0John McCain&#8217;s brother, Joe spoke at convocation last month.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=169\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama representative may be coming to LU<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-2J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}