{"id":6386,"date":"2014-04-08T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2014-04-08T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:07:46","slug":"oscar-pistorius-continues-his-testimony-at-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/08\/oscar-pistorius-continues-his-testimony-at-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius continues his testimony at murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6286\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/399px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6286\" alt=\"Oscar Pistorius in 2011. (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/399px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/399px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011.jpg 399w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/399px-Oscar_Pistorius_2_Daegu_2011-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Pistorius in 2011. (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>PRETORIA, South Africa &#8211; Oscar Pistorius was testifying for a second day at his murder trial Tuesday, answering questions from his defence lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius is expected to speak about the night he shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and will also be cross-examined by the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The double-amputee Olympic runner was the second witness called by the defence Monday, when he made a tearful apology to Steenkamp&#8217;s family. He said he was now on medication and suffered from panic attacks, and had a long-held fear of crime, which he says contributed to him firing through a toilet door on Valentine&#8217;s Day last year thinking his girlfriend was a nighttime intruder.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say that Pistorius is lying and killed Steenkamp intentionally after an argument and charged the world-famous athlete with premeditated murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; PRETORIA, South Africa &#8211; Oscar Pistorius was testifying for a second day at his murder trial Tuesday, answering questions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[450,1207,333],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-af","tag-pistorius","tag-trial","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","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=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}