{"id":282560,"date":"2010-02-05T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2010-02-05T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:00:51","slug":"james-arthur-ray-new-age-guru-in-court-to-defend-sweat-lodge-manslaughter-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282560","title":{"rendered":"James Arthur Ray, New Age Guru, In Court To Defend Sweat Lodge Manslaughter Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 178px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/James-Arthur-Ray-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yavapai County Sheriff's Office photo of James Arthur Ray, after his arrest on manslaughter charges.\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21640 \" width=\"168\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yavapai County Sheriff&#39;s Office photo of James Arthur Ray, after his arrest on manslaughter charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ll finally learn what really went on inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2009\/10\/for-some-seeking-rebirth-sweat-lodge-was-end\/\">infamous Arizona retreat<\/a> held by one of the teachers from <em>The Secret<\/em>, James Arthur Ray, now that he&#8217;s in court, although so far he&#8217;s keeping quiet. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2010\/02\/05\/business-financial-impact-us-sweat-lodge-deaths_7333456.html\">Forbes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CAMP VERDE, Ariz. &#8212; Self-help guru James Arthur Ray says it was all a tragic accident when his followers began collapsing one by one in a sweat lodge at his retreat, with three of them dying. As unfortunate as the ordeal was, he says the participants knew about the risks the ceremony presented.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say it&#8217;s a blatant case of manslaughter by a man who recklessly crammed dozens of people in a 400-square-foot sweat lodge and chided them for wanting to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yavapai County Sheriff&#39;s Office photo of James Arthur Ray, after his arrest on manslaughter charges. Maybe we&#8217;ll finally learn what really went on inside the infamous Arizona retreat held by one of the teachers from The Secret, James Arthur Ray, now that he&#8217;s in court, although so far he&#8217;s keeping quiet. From Forbes: CAMP VERDE, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282560","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}