{"id":91925,"date":"2023-10-23T00:05:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91925"},"modified":"2023-10-23T00:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:05:58","slug":"joran-and-jussie-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/10\/23\/joran-and-jussie-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Joran and Jussie in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was criticized harshly over my coverage of <strong>Natalee Holloway<\/strong>\u2019s disappearance.&nbsp; I said it then, and I\u2019ll say it now \u2013 girl on a class trip goes off in the middle of the night for a stroll on a deserted beach with a little Dutch boy.&nbsp; Sounds to me like a recipe for disaster \u2013 or some very good Danish pastry!&nbsp; Anyway, <strong>Joran van der Sloot <\/strong>has confessed to the murder, and recounted how it happened.&nbsp; Not to get graphic, but Natalee showed some gumption with her final breath and kneed him in the crotch.&nbsp; If you\u2019re going out, I say go out swinging.&nbsp; I know many of my readers have a hankering for Joran.&nbsp; He will potentially be ready for parole in 2043.&nbsp; But I don\u2019t expect the ensuing 20 years will be kind to him.&nbsp; Natalee\u2019s mom, <strong>Beth Holloway<\/strong>, said it best.&nbsp; \u201cYou look like hell, Joran.&nbsp; I don\u2019t see how you\u2019re going to make it.\u201d&nbsp; He clearly doesn\u2019t read this column.&nbsp; Joran \u2013 moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.<\/p>\n<p>Just because we\u2019re not talking about <strong>Jussie Smollett<\/strong>, doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s nothing to say.&nbsp; He\u2019s been in and out of Chicago courtrooms trying to get an appeal and\/or overturn his hoax hate crime verdict.&nbsp; Jussie \u2013 give it up.&nbsp; It won\u2019t change anyone\u2019s mind. &nbsp;The people who believed you set it up will still believe that.&nbsp; And those who support you will stay by your side.&nbsp; Of course, they could have a meeting in a two-seater\u2026and still have room to pick up a hitchhiker, but that\u2019s another story.&nbsp; Just to hedge his bets, Jussie checked himself into rehab while the jury deliberates.&nbsp; It\u2019s all about the optics, baby.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was criticized harshly over my coverage of Natalee Holloway\u2019s disappearance.&nbsp; I said it then, and I\u2019ll say it now \u2013 girl on a class trip goes off in the middle of the night for a stroll on a deserted beach with a little Dutch boy.&nbsp; Sounds to me like a recipe for disaster \u2013<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91925","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\/91925","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=91925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91926,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91925\/revisions\/91926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}