{"id":13295,"date":"2014-06-03T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13295"},"modified":"2014-06-03T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:09:14","slug":"donald-sterling-attends-service-at-black-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/03\/donald-sterling-attends-service-at-black-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sterling attends service at black church"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13376\" style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Donald-Sterling-attends-a-black-church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13376\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Donald-Sterling-attends-a-black-church.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Sterling attends a black church. Photo courtesy of NBA RETWEET \/ Twitter\" width=\"632\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Donald-Sterling-attends-a-black-church.jpg 632w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Donald-Sterling-attends-a-black-church-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Sterling attends a Sunday service at Praises of Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTNBA\/status\/473480768220434432\/photo\/1\">NBA RETWEET \/ Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Donald Sterling, whose racist remarks in a recording triggered the fight over ownership of Los Angeles Clippers, attended a predominantly black church service in South Los Angeles on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling told KNBC-TV he went to Praises of Zion Missionary Baptist Church to support the church and said the service was &#8220;beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The station said the church&#8217;s pastor met Sterling recently and invited him to worship with the congregation. Sterling received a warm welcome, and Pastor J. Benjamin Hardwick told him the congregation was praying for him.<\/p>\n<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Sterling $2.5 million, banned him from the league and started the process to end his ownership of the Clippers after an audio recording of Sterling disparaging blacks became public in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Donald Sterling, whose racist remarks in a recording triggered the fight over ownership of Los Angeles Clippers, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[4550,2830],"class_list":["post-13295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","tag-attends-black-church","tag-donald-sterling","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}