{"id":90233,"date":"2022-03-20T23:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90233"},"modified":"2022-03-20T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T06:21:10","slug":"smolletts-full-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/03\/20\/smolletts-full-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Smollett&#8217;s Full Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s <strong>Jussie Smollett <\/strong>\u2013 the Bachelor of Cell Block 8!&nbsp; He knows he did it.&nbsp; We know he did it.&nbsp; Everyone knows he did it.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t take a deal when offered, and he arrogantly continues to deny guilt.&nbsp; He was sentenced to 150 days, which would probably end up being 75 days for good behavior (and I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be very good).&nbsp; Then the judge was criticized for being \u201coverly harsh\u201d with the sentencing.&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; Staging a crime?&nbsp; Costing the City of Chicago over $130K?&nbsp; Not repaying a debt?&nbsp; And not admitting guilt?&nbsp; I think he\u2019s \u201cgetting off\u201d easy\u2026which probably ain\u2019t so hard in prison!&nbsp; On his first night in the pokey, he was placed on suicide watch.&nbsp; Then he refused food for six days and lived on ice water, which begs the question \u2013 where is this jail where prisoners have access to an ice machine?&nbsp; As to refusing food \u2013 maybe he wanted to stay fresh for his gentlemen callers.&nbsp; Bowing to pressure, he was released pending appeal.&nbsp; If said appeal fails \u2013 as it undoubtedly will \u2013 I hope nobody complains when he has to serve his full sentence.&nbsp; In fact, I insist on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s Jussie Smollett \u2013 the Bachelor of Cell Block 8!&nbsp; He knows he did it.&nbsp; We know he did it.&nbsp; Everyone knows he did it.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t take a deal when offered, and he arrogantly continues to deny guilt.&nbsp; He was sentenced to 150 days, which would probably end up being 75 days for<\/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-90233","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\/90233","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=90233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90234,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90233\/revisions\/90234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}