{"id":439,"date":"2005-08-08T19:25:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=439"},"modified":"2005-08-08T19:26:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T23:26:47","slug":"sellouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Sellouts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that people&#8217;s morals and scruples come out only when convenient to them, like when major book deals are being signed?  Two jurors of the Michael Jackson trial &#8211; which unanimously voted not guilty, mind you &#8211; have book deals pending, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/08\/08\/jackson.jurors.ap\/index.html\">and a sudden change of heart<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They&#8217;re the ones that let a pedophile go,&#8221; responded [Eleanor] Cook, 79.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uhh, did she forget that she <em>also<\/em> voted not guilty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurors in the Micahel jackson trial suddenly develop a conscience that happens to coincide with their book deals.<\/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-439","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\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}