{"id":5141,"date":"2020-06-08T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2020-06-08T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:33:49","slug":"liberty-universitys-jerry-falwell-issues-3-tweet-apology-for-controversial-mask-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5141","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University&rsquo;s Jerry Falwell issues 3-tweet apology for controversial mask tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liberty University President Jerry Falwell took to Twitter on Monday to apologize for a recent controversial tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He posted the apology across three tweets, here it is combined:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After listening to African American LU leaders and alumni over the past week and hearing their concerns, I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor\u2019s racist past (Part 1\/3)<\/p>&mdash; Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryFalwellJr\/status\/1270079835277230082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-PJC9awbBtM\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/news\/local\/2020\/06\/08\/liberty-universitys-jerry-falwell-issues-3-tweet-apology-for-controversial-mask-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iberty University President Jerry Falwell took to Twitter on Monday to apologize for a recent controversial tweet.<\/p>\n<p>He posted the apology &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5141\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University&rsquo;s Jerry Falwell issues 3-tweet apology for controversial mask tweet<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[82],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-universitys-jerry-falwell-issues-tweet-apology-for-controversial-mask-tweet","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}