{"id":12574,"date":"2016-01-25T21:21:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12574"},"modified":"2016-01-25T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:21:12","slug":"2-corinthians-gaffe-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12574","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;2 Corinthians&#8217; gaffe lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bible2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11051\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bible2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bible2\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bible2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bible2-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gaffe that Donald J. Trump committed at Lynchburg University just won&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump&#8217;s chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, took a poke at Trump over the verbal blunder.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill reports:<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz joked Monday about rival Donald Trump&#8217;s flub of a Bible verse.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;While on the campaign trail in Iowa, Cruz began referencing the biblical verse 2 Chronicles 7:14 (&#8216;Second Chronicles&#8217;) before he was interrupted by someone in the crowd at the town hall who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/betsy_klein\/status\/691661791559073792\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">joked<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0he meant\u00a0&#8216;Two Chronicles.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-mosad_1-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-mosad_1\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_1107919\/Content_300x250_BallotBox_asynch_0__container__\">&#8220;&#8216;Well, you know, two Corinthians walk into a bar&#8230;&#8217; the Texas senator quipped.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Cruz was making light of Trump&#8217;s gaffe during a speech at Liberty University last week where he referenced &#8216;2 Corinthians&#8217; instead of &#8216;Second Corinthians,&#8217; as it&#8217;s commonly known.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Trump later\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/266556-trump-blames-two-corinthians-gaffe-on-tony-perkins\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">blamed<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0evangelical activist Tony Perkins for the gaffe, saying &#8216;he actually wrote out the 2&#8217; for his speech and adding that people in other places of the world &#8216;say 2.'&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And to think that President Barack Obama&#8217;s critics keep\u00a0criticizing him for\u00a0his expert use of the TelePrompter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gaffe that Donald J. Trump committed at Lynchburg University just won&#8217;t go away. Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump&#8217;s chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, took a poke at Trump over the verbal blunder. The Hill reports: &#8220;Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz joked Monday about rival Donald Trump&#8217;s flub of a Bible verse. &#8220;While on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;2 Corinthians&#8217; gaffe lingers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15],"tags":[540,610,2783,5878,4537,4855],"class_list":["post-12574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-religious-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-bible","tag-liberty-university","tag-second-corinthians","tag-ted-cruz","tag-tony-perkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12575,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions\/12575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}