{"id":133839,"date":"2017-11-29T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133839"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:10:16","slug":"garrison-keillor-fired-over-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133839","title":{"rendered":"Garrison Keillor fired, over allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"_oneup\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133840\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/keilor-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/keilor-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/keilor-131x175.jpg 131w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/keilor.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>MINNEAPOLIS\u00a0 (AP)\u2014 <span style=\"color: red;\">Garrison<\/span> Keillor, the former host of &#8220;A Prairie Home Companion,&#8221; said Wednesday he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"_oneup\">Keillor told The Associated Press of his firing in an email. In a follow-up statement, he said he was fired over &#8220;a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard.&#8221; He later said he touched a woman&#8217;s bare back as he tried to console her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"_oneup\">Minnesota Public Radio confirmed Keillor had been fired, saying it received a single allegation of &#8220;inappropriate behavior&#8221; and doesn&#8217;t know of any other similar allegations. MPR said it was notified of the allegation last month and that it stemmed from Keillor&#8217;s conduct when he was responsible for producing &#8220;A Prairie Home Companion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"_oneup\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS\u00a0 (AP)\u2014 Garrison Keillor, the former host of &#8220;A Prairie Home Companion,&#8221; said Wednesday he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. Keillor told The Associated Press of his firing in an email. In a follow-up statement, he said he was fired over &#8220;a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133839","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=133839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133843,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133839\/revisions\/133843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}