{"id":50,"date":"2008-03-26T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-03-26T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:32:30","slug":"chuck-norris-to-speak-at-liberty-university%e2%80%99s-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Norris to speak at Liberty University\u2019s graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/chuck.jpg\" alt=\"chuck.jpg\" \/>Martial artist and Hollywood action star Chuck Norris will appear in Lynchburg May 10th as Liberty University\u2019s commencement speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced the news this morning amidst thousands of cheering students at the school\u2019s convocation service.<\/p>\n<p>Norris is best known for his long-running role on the television series \u201cWalker, Texas Ranger,\u201d as well as movies like \u201cMissing in Action.\u201d Norris is also a conservative Christian.  Like Falwell Jr., Norris also endorsed former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for the Republican nomination for president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martial artist and Hollywood action star Chuck Norris will appear in Lynchburg May 10th as Liberty University\u2019s commencement speaker. Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=50\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chuck Norris to speak at Liberty University\u2019s graduation<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2211,"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":[4],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-features","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/chuck.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}