{"id":8575,"date":"2003-02-18T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/18\/jester-news-thats-fit-to-print\/"},"modified":"2003-02-18T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2003-02-18T14:48:43","slug":"jester-news-thats-fit-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/jester-news-thats-fit-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Jester news that&#039;s fit to print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Tonga&#8217;s king has been given a date in an American court<br \/>\nto sue his one time court jester for $50 million. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">The case, likely to offer a sensational look into the<br \/>\nsecret goings on of the Tongan royal family, will be in the US District Court,<br \/>\nSan Francisco, on December 1, Radio and TV Tonga reported. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Two years ago King Taufa&#8217;ahau Tupou appointed Jesse Bogdonoff,<br \/>\na one-time bank clerk and latterly a leader of a Japanese Buddhist group, as<br \/>\nhis court jester. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">He also gave him control of the Tonga Trust Fund that<br \/>\nthe king had set up in a low interest bearing account in California to hold<br \/>\nthe proceeds of the sale of Tongan citizenship and passports to foreigners,<br \/>\nincluding then exiled Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda.<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/onenews.nzoom.com\/onenews_detail\/0,1227,169095-1-9,00.html\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>Never give a jester access to a bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonga&#8217;s king has been given a date in an American court to sue his one time court jester for $50 million. The case, likely to offer a sensational look into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}