{"id":14655,"date":"2017-11-11T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/11\/how-the-comedy-world-protected-louis-ck-as-rumors-swirled\/"},"modified":"2017-11-11T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:20:09","slug":"how-the-comedy-world-protected-louis-ck-as-rumors-swirled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14655","title":{"rendered":"How the comedy world protected Louis CK as rumors swirled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some industry figures have distanced themselves from the comedian following a new report \u2013 but many long kept quiet despite years of questionsWhenever rumors intensified about the sexual misconduct of Louis CK, the comedy world seemed to close ranks. Speaking directly about the allegations seemed like it could be a career-ending risk.\u201cI was told to delete a tweet I wrote about Louis CK abusing women before I applied to a high-profile comedy job because the people conducting the hiring process might not like it,\u201d Nicole Silverberg, an editor and TV writer, said Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2017\/nov\/10\/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct-allegations-comedy\" target=\"_blank\">How the comedy world protected Louis CK as rumors swirled<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some industry figures have distanced themselves from the comedian following a new report \u2013 but many long kept quiet despite years of questionsWhenever rumors intensified about the sexual misconduct of Louis CK, the comedy world seemed to close ranks. Speaking directly about the allegations seemed like it could be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}