{"id":57011,"date":"2018-09-05T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/05\/elon-musk-calls-thailand-diver-child-rapist-in-latest-baseless-attack\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T01:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T23:48:35","slug":"elon-musk-calls-thailand-diver-child-rapist-in-latest-baseless-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57011","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk calls Thailand diver &#039;child rapist&#039; in latest baseless attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO, who previously called Vernon Unsworth a \u2018pedo\u2019, has faced widespread backlash over his commentsElon Musk has escalated his baseless attacks against a British diver, claiming without evidence that the man who helped rescue children from a cave in Thailand was a \u201cchild rapist\u201d in an email to a reporter. The embattled Tesla CEO faced widespread backlash in July when he first called the diver Vernon Unsworth a \u201cpedo\u201d in a tweet \u2013 an unfounded claim against a man who was part of the international team that freed 12 young footballers and their coach from the Tham Luang cave complex. Musk, who had unsuccessfully attempted to assist the rescue mission, eventually apologized to Unsworth. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/sep\/04\/elon-musk-claims-diver-in-thai-cave-rescue-is-child-rapist-without-evidence\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk calls Thailand diver &#039;child rapist&#039; in latest baseless attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO, who previously called Vernon Unsworth a \u2018pedo\u2019, has faced widespread backlash over his commentsElon Musk has escalated his baseless attacks against a British diver, claiming without evidence that the man who helped rescue children from a cave in Thailand was a \u201cchild rapist\u201d in an email to 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-57011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011","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=57011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}