{"id":125477,"date":"2017-07-20T13:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125477"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:55:08","slug":"o-j-simpson-granted-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125477","title":{"rendered":"O.J. Simpson granted parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SimpsonOJ-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-125538\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SimpsonOJ-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SimpsonOJ-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SimpsonOJ-1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SimpsonOJ-1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) \u00a0 70-year-old O.J. Simpson\u00a0 appeared before a Nevada parole board Thursday, and was granted patrol with conditions, after serving nine years in prison for a botched bid to retrieve sports memorabilia in Las Vegas..<\/p>\n<p>A Nevada parole board decided Thursday that the 70-year-old former football, TV and movie star will be released in October after serving his minimum term for armed robbery and assault with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson responded emotionally, saying, &#8220;Thank you, thank you, thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four parole commissioners in Carson City questioned Simpson by videoconference from the Lovelock Correctional Center in rural Nevada. He has been held there since he was convicted in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The conviction came 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of murder in 1995 in the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) \u00a0 70-year-old O.J. Simpson\u00a0 appeared before a Nevada parole board Thursday, and was granted patrol with conditions, after serving nine years in prison for a botched bid to retrieve sports memorabilia in Las Vegas.. A Nevada parole board decided Thursday that the 70-year-old former football, TV and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125477"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125591,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125477\/revisions\/125591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}