{"id":4653,"date":"2014-03-20T07:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2014-03-21T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T06:00:43","slug":"lawyer-pistorius-selling-house-where-he-shot-steenkamp-to-raise-money-for-legal-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/20\/lawyer-pistorius-selling-house-where-he-shot-steenkamp-to-raise-money-for-legal-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer: Pistorius selling house where he shot Steenkamp to raise money for legal bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4657\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/250px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4657\" alt=\"Oscar Pistorius (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/250px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/250px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/250px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Pistorius (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa\u2014Oscar Pistorius&#8217; lawyer says the double-amputee athlete is selling the house where he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to raise money for his legal bills.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Brian Webber said in a statement Thursday that it had &#8220;become necessary&#8221; for Pistorius to sell the villa in a gated community in Pretoria because his ongoing murder trial will go beyond the expected three-week duration.<\/p>\n<p>Webber adds that Pistorius has never returned to the house since he fatally shot Steenkamp in an upstairs bathroom in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year. Webber says Pistorius &#8220;cannot contemplate ever returning to live there again.&#8221; Webber says the house has remained &#8220;sealed&#8221; since it was handed back by police over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius is on trial charged with premeditated murder in Steenkamp&#8217;s shooting death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa\u2014Oscar Pistorius&#8217; lawyer says the double-amputee athlete is selling the house where he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[450,418,260,1207,333],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-af","tag-house","tag-murder","tag-pistorius","tag-trial","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}