{"id":9157,"date":"2015-05-28T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:41:40","slug":"abbey-releases-eckroth-obituary-minus-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/abbey-releases-eckroth-obituary-minus-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Releases Eckroth Obituary Minus Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the abbey&#8217;s\u00a0well-researched decisions to add Father Richard Eckroth&#8217;s name to several lists of monk with allegations of sexual abuse involving minors [\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/tracking-the-public-lists\/\">View<\/a>\u00a0], the abbey&#8217;s obituary for Father Eckroth\u00a0[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintjohnsabbey.org\/news\/obituary-fr-richard-william-eckroth-osb\/\">View<\/a> ] made no mention of his misconduct.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The obituary\u00a0did, however, contain this nugget of truth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Father Richard had a love for constructing and demolishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On hearing of Eckroth&#8217;s passing, a commenter on Facebook wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Matthew 18:6 [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Behind-The-Pine-Curtain\/170515943018414\">View on FB<\/a> ]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the abbey&#8217;s\u00a0well-researched decisions to add Father Richard Eckroth&#8217;s name to several lists of monk with allegations of sexual abuse involving minors [\u00a0View\u00a0], the abbey&#8217;s obituary for Father Eckroth\u00a0[ View ] made no mention of his misconduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-eckroth","wp-image-borders"],"views":913,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9159,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions\/9159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}