{"id":219,"date":"2009-10-01T06:29:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-10-01T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:30:15","slug":"the-repentance-of-polanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-repentance-of-polanski-219.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Repentance of Polanski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/michaeldeacon\/100011795\/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too\/\">Michael Deacon <\/a>unearthed Polanski comments about the crime he committed:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Polanski told Martin Amis:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cIf I had <em>killed <\/em>somebody, it wouldn\u2019t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But\u2026 f\u2014ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f\u2014 young girls. Juries want to f\u2014 young girls. <em>Everyone <\/em>wants to f\u2014 young girls!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">When the controversy dies down, the Swiss will probably let him go quietly. And Polanski will make the circle of fashionable dinner parties in Europe, and probably get invited to the <span style=\"color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\">\u00c9lys\u00e9e. He and his hosts will exchange reminiscences of the pleasures they had with young teenagers, and lament how barbaric and vengeful Americans are. Perhaps Bishop Lahey can be invited to say grace.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-219\" data-postid=\"219\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-219 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Deacon unearthed Polanski comments about the crime he committed:\u00a0 Polanski told Martin Amis:\u00a0 \u201cIf I had killed somebody, it wouldn\u2019t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But\u2026 f\u2014ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f\u2014 young girls. Juries want to f\u2014 young girls. Everyone wants to f\u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,28],"tags":[273,146],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responsibility","category-sexual-abuse","tag-lahey","tag-polanski","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}