{"id":13076,"date":"2009-05-29T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T21:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scientology_on_trial_in_france\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T21:10:29","slug":"scientology_on_trial_in_france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13076","title":{"rendered":"Scientology on trial in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scientology has gone on trial in the French capital, Paris, accused of organised fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered a free personality test.<\/p>\n<p>The church, which is fighting the charges, denies that any mental manipulation took place.<\/p>\n<p>France regards Scientology as a sect, not a religion, and the organisation could be banned if it loses the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8066743.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scientology has gone on trial in the French capital, Paris, accused of organised fraud. The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13076\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,200,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}