{"id":294,"date":"2005-03-02T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=294"},"modified":"2005-03-02T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T17:33:37","slug":"oh-this-is-not-going-to-be-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Oh, this is not going to be pretty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s trial has begun, and so has the circus.  The first witness?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/498\/000044366\/\">Martin Bashir<\/a>, the same man who made &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0352524\/\">Living With Michael Jackson<\/a>,&#8221; and who Jackson says duped him into participating.  Needless to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kget.com\/entertainment\/story.aspx?content_id=56D6DC53-72EF-4F2D-9416-12BEDCD9375C\">Jacko was a little upset as Bashir entered the room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Jackson had to be calmed down Tuesday as Martin Bashir became the first prosecution witness at his child abuse trial. <\/p>\n<p>On the day it was revealed the pop star will likely take the stand to defend himself, he looked close to tears. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you imagine what an awkward, cringe-in-your-seat moment that just had to be? To be a person in that courtroom and having to see Michael Jackson become a visibly upset, blubbering&#8230; well, whatever-he-is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael jackson&#8217;s trial begins.  First witness?  Martin Bashir, the infamous maker of THE documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}