{"id":4146,"date":"2014-02-28T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.104\/~ncrjorg\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2014-02-28T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:08:39","slug":"woody-allen-deserves-the-benefit-of-the-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/main_node_view_image\/woody_allen_ap_img_2.jpg\" width=\"405\" \/>JoAnn Wypijewski in <em>The Nation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trampling on an accused priest\u2019s due process rights doesn\u2019t matter to a lot of people, even civil libertarians. Ordinarily, an overgrown gossip column with pretensions wouldn\u2019t matter either, except that this one, \u201cMia\u2019s Story,\u201d was angled to popularize a claim of child sexual abuse against Allen; and now, twenty-two years later, its gossip, innuendo and selective quotations have been presented as the evidence-never-entered in the criminal-trial-that-never-was by writers, bloggers and Twitterers hungry to play the role of stand-in for the prosecution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/178457\/why-woody-allen-deserves-benefit-doubt#\">http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/178457\/why-woody-allen-deserves-benefit-doubt#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JoAnn Wypijewski in The Nation &#8220;Trampling on an accused priest\u2019s due process rights doesn\u2019t matter to a lot of people, even civil libertarians. Ordinarily, an overgrown gossip column with pretensions wouldn\u2019t matter either, except that this one, \u201cMia\u2019s Story,\u201d was angled to popularize a claim of child sexual abuse against Allen; and now, twenty-two years&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=4146\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}