{"id":21278,"date":"2014-04-07T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21278"},"modified":"2014-04-07T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:57:16","slug":"anglican-journal-bishop-settles-lawsuit-with-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-journal-bishop-settles-lawsuit-with-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Journal: Bishop settles lawsuit with blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/bishop-settles-lawsuit-with-blogger\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The settlement also stipulated that Jenkins would pay \u201ca majority of the legal costs involved, remove the Bishop from his posts, and agree not to publish any similar posts about the Bishop in the future,\u201d according to a release issued by the diocese of Niagara. In a related post on Anglican Samizdat, Jenkins noted that he had agreed to pay $18,000 toward legal costs, which Bird\u2019s lawyer had stated were $24,000. Jenkins did not pay damages, which were listed as $400,000 in the original claim filed in February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins\u2019s statement of defence had denied that his postings were libelous or defamatory. It asserted that he was exercising his freedom of religion and expression and that his comments were \u201c\u2026intended to be humourous and make use of satire, sarcasm, irony, hyperbole, wit, \u2018send up\u2019 and other types of humour to make a point other than what one would take literally from the comments. In those cases, no reasonable viewer or reader of the blog postings would be expected to believe that the statements are true\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all here: The settlement also stipulated that Jenkins would pay \u201ca majority of the legal costs involved, remove the Bishop from his posts, and agree not to publish any similar posts about the Bishop in the future,\u201d according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-journal-bishop-settles-lawsuit-with-blogger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[400,2058,2188],"class_list":["post-21278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuit","tag-anglican-journal","tag-bishop-michael-bird","tag-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}