{"id":2394,"date":"2008-10-23T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2008-10-23T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T06:59:08","slug":"being-sued-for-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"Being sued for libel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will sue you for damages no less than $25,000,&#8221; the message read.<\/p>\n<p>Automatically, I calculated my savings, thinking of course I could cover it.<\/p>\n<p>Then panic set in.  Me sued?  Me, the one who can barely lie?  Me the one who abides for rules even accidentally saying, &#8220;Yeah people under 21 shouldn&#8217;t drink! [because the law said so]&#8221;  And even the one struggling with moral principles when everyone is taking an extra sample.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a review I wrote on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\">unnamed site<\/a>, I was threatened by a lawsuit of libel and defamation by a former business I frequented due to my naivete.  I spammed the yelp talk and twitter.  I notified my parents in fear that they will feel the force of retaliation (the business only knows my parents&#8217; address).<\/p>\n<p>But they say truth is all that matters.  I can be sued, but I will always win.  Because I cannot tell a lie.  I can give an opinion and fortunately I live in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will sue you for damages no less than $25,000,&#8221; the message read. Automatically, I calculated my savings, thinking of course I could cover it. Then panic set in. Me sued? Me, the one who can barely lie? Me the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}