{"id":84283,"date":"2019-03-15T02:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T01:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/15\/if-steel-had-exposed-perverted-brute-cyril-smith-boys-could-have-been-saved-writes-matthew-baker\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T02:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T01:59:53","slug":"if-steel-had-exposed-perverted-brute-cyril-smith-boys-could-have-been-saved-writes-matthew-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=84283","title":{"rendered":"If Steel had exposed perverted brute Cyril Smith, boys could have been saved, writes MATTHEW BAKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paedophile MP Cyril Smith abused teenage boys in Rochdale in the 1960s. Former party leader Lord David Steel told the Westminster abuse inquiry that Smith confessed the crimes to him in 1979.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6811819\/If-Steel-exposed-perverted-brute-Cyril-Smith-boys-saved-writes-MATTHEW-BAKER.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ito=1490&#038;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">If Steel had exposed perverted brute Cyril Smith, boys could have been saved, writes MATTHEW BAKER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paedophile MP Cyril Smith abused teenage boys in Rochdale in the 1960s. Former party leader Lord David Steel told the Westminster abuse inquiry that Smith confessed the crimes to him in 1979. Via: If Steel had exposed perverted brute Cyril Smith, boys could have been saved, writes MATTHEW BAKER<\/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-84283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84283","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=84283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}