{"id":82605,"date":"2026-05-03T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82605"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:20:39","slug":"speed-running-scientology-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/speed-running-scientology-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Speed Running&#8217; Scientology Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post [tabloid]:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A mob of rowdy teens stormed a Big Apple Scientology church Saturday afternoon, trashing the property and injuring a security guard amid a nationwide rash of similar viral social media stunts, police and sources said.\u00a0About 50 unruly youths\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@o1ivierr\/video\/7635457191453019423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barreled through a locked side door of the Church of Scientology of New York<\/a> \u2014 which sits just off Times Square on West 46th Street \u2014 at around 4:24 p.m., damaging the premises while worshipers and visitors were attending a seminar, according to cops, police sources and the church. The rampaging teens \u2014 whose act resembled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/01\/us-news\/inside-viral-scientology-speedrun-trend-prompting-the-church-to-bolster-security\/\">the \u201cspeed running\u201d trend<\/a>\u00a0that has seen similar invasions at Scientology locations in Los Angeles \u2014 also hurled a racial slur at another staffer, the church said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777800039\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;Speed Running&#8217; Scientology Sites\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post [tabloid]: A mob of rowdy teens stormed a Big Apple Scientology church Saturday afternoon, trashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82606,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82605\/revisions\/82606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}