{"id":712554,"date":"2018-05-04T11:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=712554"},"modified":"2018-05-05T18:54:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T23:54:45","slug":"warren-jeffs-utah-home-converted-into-sober-living-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=712554","title":{"rendered":"Warren Jeffs&#8217; Utah Home Converted into Sober Living House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/warren_jeffs_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/warren_jeffs_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-651739\" \/><\/a>SALT LAKE CITY (AP\/Staff) &#8211; A sprawling 44-bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by evangelical missionaries. It is the latest sign of the group&#8217;s dwindling control of the small community on the Utah-Arizona border. Jeffs hasn&#8217;t lived in the three-story home known as the &#8220;Big House&#8221; for years.  That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s serving a life sentence in the Lewis C. Powledge Unit near Palestine for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides. His 65th wife, Briell Decker, was granted the right to buy the home for a discounted price of $600,000 by a community board overseeing the redistribution of houses. She connected with the faith-based Dream Center network, which is now leasing the home for a year with an option to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP\/Staff) &#8211; A sprawling 44-bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by evangelical missionaries. It is the latest sign of the group&#8217;s dwindling control of the small community on the Utah-Arizona border. Jeffs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=712554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warren Jeffs&#8217; Utah Home Converted into Sober Living House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":651739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 09:27:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712555,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712554\/revisions\/712555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}