{"id":7429,"date":"2018-04-27T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/14\/cosby-verdict-sends-strong-message\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:03","slug":"cosby-verdict-sends-strong-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/cosby-verdict-sends-strong-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosby verdict sends strong message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The onscreen persona of celebrities can sometimes veil true character. The verdict in the Bill Cosby trial has stirred conversation about the entertainer whose actions belied his onstage\u00a0fatherly character. An advocate for sexual assault victims\u00a0Jamika Nedwards\u00a0and Cynthia King, Furman University chair of communication studies, join the conversation in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/upstate-experts-cosby-verdict-sends-strong-message\/20079935\">WYFF<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>interview. Said King, &#8220;&#8230; there was this incredible gulf between what [Cosby] represented on screen and who he was in real life &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The onscreen persona of celebrities can sometimes veil true character. The verdict in the Bill Cosby trial has stirred conversation about the entertainer whose actions belied his onstage\u00a0fatherly character. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,6,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}