{"id":248649,"date":"2010-01-29T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91075"},"modified":"2010-01-29T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T01:41:00","slug":"the-who%e2%80%99s-pete-townshed-targeted-by-child-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248649","title":{"rendered":"The Who\u2019s Pete Townshed Targeted By Child Advocacy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida child advocacy group has sent out leaflets ahead of the Super Bowl Halftime performance of Pete Townshend &#8212; legendary British rocker and registered sex offender.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/INFphoto_425580-1-500x703.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pete Townshend\" width=\"500\" height=\"703\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-91076\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91075\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The group is outraged that the 64-year-old guitarist will perform with his band The Who at the NFL&#8217;s championship game in Miami Feb. 7, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/national\/pete_townshend_targeted_as_sex_offender_3BJDh6zHpMRuPy9pSFfnUL\">The New York Post<\/a><\/em> reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Townshed was placed on Britain&#8217;s sex offender registry for five years after admitting to using his credit card to access child pornography on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the group lobbied federal authorities and Florida&#8217;s attorney general, requesting that Townshend&#8217;s  visa be rejected.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" id=\"Redlasso\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedId=fe090adc-2a78-4d78-8134-9527ba52d16b&#038;pid=undefined\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" flashvars=\"embedId=fe090adc-2a78-4d78-8134-9527ba52d16b&#038;pid=undefined\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" name=\"Redlasso\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BChKMqV2gk9Dn0Re99wZmKP_lOk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BChKMqV2gk9Dn0Re99wZmKP_lOk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BChKMqV2gk9Dn0Re99wZmKP_lOk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BChKMqV2gk9Dn0Re99wZmKP_lOk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida child advocacy group has sent out leaflets ahead of the Super Bowl Halftime performance of Pete Townshend &#8212; legendary British rocker and registered sex offender. The group is outraged that the 64-year-old guitarist will perform with his band The Who at the NFL&#8217;s championship game in Miami Feb. 7, The New York Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}