{"id":145678,"date":"2018-01-12T01:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145678"},"modified":"2018-01-12T01:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:58:50","slug":"bill-cosbys-next-trial-will-carry-weight-of-metoo-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/12\/bill-cosbys-next-trial-will-carry-weight-of-metoo-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby&#8217;s next trial will carry weight of #MeToo movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121241\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121241\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby.jpg\" alt=\"A federal appeals court is set to examine a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman who claims he raped her decades ago. (Photo By The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"739\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby.jpg 739w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Bill Cosby (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=37016983\">Photo By The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Jurors couldn&#8217;t agree the first time around whether to accept a woman&#8217;s story that she was sexually assaulted over a decade ago by Bill Cosby.<\/p>\n<p>Now he faces a retrial in less than 90 days in a vastly different cultural climate, one in which powerful men from Hollywood to the U.S. Senate are being toppled by allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The shift is clearly on Cosby&#8217;s mind, as he quipped to a reporter after shaking her hand: \u201cPlease don&#8217;t put me on MeToo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts say the seismic change in supporting victims of sexual assault will likely trickle into the Cosby retrial, slated to begin April 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Jurors couldn&#8217;t agree the first time around whether to accept a woman&#8217;s story that she was sexually assaulted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[32716,10006],"class_list":["post-145678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-metoo","tag-bill-cosby","mauthors-kristen-de-groot","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}