{"id":5325,"date":"2019-09-08T23:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2019-09-08T23:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T06:42:15","slug":"falwells-boy-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/08\/falwells-boy-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Falwell&#8217;s Boy Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Jerry Falwell Jr<\/strong>. and&nbsp;<strong>Ben Crosswhite<\/strong>, his \u201cpersonal trainer\u201d (so that\u2019s what we\u2019re calling it now).&nbsp; It\u2019s been reported that in 2016, Falwell signed documents transferring ownership of an 18-acre fitness facility owned by&nbsp;<em>Liberty University&nbsp;<\/em>(his very Christian college) to Crosswhite, a recent&nbsp;<em>Liberty<\/em>&nbsp;graduate.&nbsp; While the purchase price was $1.2 million, the university reduced that by $650K in order to lease the tennis courts back from him through 2025.&nbsp; On top of that,&nbsp;<em>Liberty<\/em>&nbsp;financed the balance at 3-percent interest.&nbsp; Such favorable terms leave me with one question \u2013 exactly what is Crosswhite training?&nbsp; Publicly, Falwell credits Ben for helping him lose 75 pounds.&nbsp; Whatever they were doing, I suspect the word \u201cpound\u201d was employed.&nbsp; It bears mentioning that only a few weeks ago, we revealed that Falwell lent a young pool attendant in Miami almost $2 million to start a youth hostel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s&nbsp;Jerry Falwell Jr. and&nbsp;Ben Crosswhite, his \u201cpersonal trainer\u201d (so that\u2019s what we\u2019re calling it now).&nbsp; It\u2019s been reported that in 2016, Falwell signed documents transferring ownership of an 18-acre fitness facility owned by&nbsp;Liberty University&nbsp;(his very Christian college) to Crosswhite, a recent&nbsp;Liberty&nbsp;graduate.&nbsp; While the purchase price was $1.2 million, the university reduced that by $650K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}