{"id":62895,"date":"2021-07-12T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=62895"},"modified":"2021-07-12T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:02:00","slug":"james-franco-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/07\/12\/james-franco-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"James Franco Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didya know <strong>James Franco <\/strong>had a film school?&nbsp; I was sure this was some joke, or perhaps a different James Franco \u2013 like that male <strong>Taylor Swift <\/strong>in Seattle who I believe works in a diner.&nbsp; But, nope \u2013 the James Franco who looks dreamy and is devoid of expression in countless films also teaches\u2026or does he?&nbsp; Two of his former students accused him of sexual harassment, exploitation and coercion.&nbsp; According to <strong>Mr. Webster<\/strong>, \u201ccoercion\u201d means \u201cthe practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats\u201d.&nbsp; So that piqued my interest. &nbsp;What did Jimmy get someone to do?&nbsp; Details are not in this filing, so I went back to the original suit\u2026\u2019cause I live for research.&nbsp; Franco allegedly \u201csought to create a pipeline of young women who were subjected to his personal and professional sexual exploitation in the name of education.\u201d&nbsp; I suppose that makes sense for film scenes in which nudity and sex are germane to the plot.&nbsp; It\u2019s not an argument that would work if he were teaching calculus\u2026as if!&nbsp; James and his two colleagues have agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle the lawsuit.&nbsp; In addition to the financial settlement, the victims have asked for additional \u201cnon-economic relief\u201d, but these additions are under a confidential seal.&nbsp; It has been my experience that most seals have loose lips \u2013 especially when you throw them chum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didya know James Franco had a film school?&nbsp; I was sure this was some joke, or perhaps a different James Franco \u2013 like that male Taylor Swift in Seattle who I believe works in a diner.&nbsp; But, nope \u2013 the James Franco who looks dreamy and is devoid of expression in countless films also teaches\u2026or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62896,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895\/revisions\/62896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}