{"id":1199,"date":"2025-06-25T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:30:21","slug":"high-school-coach-who-was-fired-for-praying-with-players-wins-1-7-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"High school coach who was fired for praying with players wins $1.7 million settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High school coach Joseph Kennedy, who was dismissed for praying with players, has secured a $1.7 million settlement from the Bremerton School District in Washington State. The district accepted the award unanimously. Kennedy will also serve as an assistant football coach in 2023, receiving a stipend for his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gossipcube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Joe-Kennedy-headshot-scaled-1-300x213.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1459\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>School board president Alyson Rotter expressed the community\u2019s desire to move past the nearly eight-year legal battle. Kennedy, fired for praying with students, found relief in two developments: the settlement and a Supreme Court ruling in his favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gossipcube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/football-prayer-joe-kennedy-abc-jt-220330_1648669437554_hpEmbed_16x9_992-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1458\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe school community is eager to put this nearly eight-year legal battle behind them,\u201d said Rotter. Kennedy feels justified after the Court upheld his right to pray with students, ruling 6-3 in his favor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school coach Joseph Kennedy, who was dismissed for praying with players, has secured a $1.7 million settlement from the Bremerton School District in Washington State. The district accepted the award unanimously. Kennedy will also serve as an assistant football coach in 2023, receiving a stipend for his time. School board president Alyson Rotter expressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}