{"id":20581,"date":"2010-09-24T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20581"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T14:37:33","slug":"bill-ayers-denied-emeritus-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20581","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ayers denied emeritus status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/09\/ayers-denied-emeritus-status-after-plea-from-chris-kennedy.html\">Bev Perlson sent us this link<\/a> last night about Robert Kennedy&#8217;s son, Christopher, lobbying the University of Illinois trustees against Bill Ayers, the terrorist linked to bombings in the 60s as well as the current president. Ayers was applying to the board for &#8220;emeritus&#8221; status with the university which brought him some benefits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;in an emotional statement, Kennedy discussed his reasons for voting against Ayers&#8217; request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am guided by my conscience and one which has been formed by a series of experiences, many of which have been shared with the people of our country and mark each of us in a profound way,&#8221; Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he could not confer the title &#8220;to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy was referring a 1974 book co-authored by Ayers, &#8220;Prairie Fire,&#8221; which was dedicated to a long list of people including Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan and &#8220;all political prisoners in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the board voted unanimously against the status for Ayers. I&#8217;m just glad to see that there&#8217;s some behavior that the surviving Kennedys won&#8217;t tolerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bev Perlson sent us this link last night about Robert Kennedy&#8217;s son, Christopher, lobbying the University &hellip; <a title=\"Bill Ayers denied emeritus status\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20581\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Ayers denied emeritus status<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}