{"id":81620,"date":"2016-06-08T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=81620"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:57:24","slug":"an-open-letter-to-stanford-rapists-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/an-open-letter-to-stanford-rapists-father\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father Writes an Open Letter to Former Stanford Swimmer&#8217;s Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/victim-open-letter-to-stanford-attacker\/\" target=\"_blank\">was convicted<\/a> of raping and assaulting an unconscious woman and received a mere six month sentence in county jail. Not to mention his father, Dan Turner, wrote a dismissive letter to the judge, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mldauber\/status\/739320585222660096\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">defending his son.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People across the Internet have been expressing outrage over the case, including a father from North Carolina named John Pavlovitz. He\u00a0wrote a blog post addressing the swimmer&#8217;s dad &#8212; father to father:<\/p>\n<p>I need you to understand something, and I say this as a father who dearly loves my son as much as you must love yours:<\/p>\n<p>Brock is not the victim here.<br \/>\nHis victim is the victim.<br \/>\nShe is the wounded one.<br \/>\nHe is the damager.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full letter <a href=\"http:\/\/johnpavlovitz.com\/2016\/06\/06\/to-brock-turners-father-from-another-father\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"In case you haven't heard, former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner was convicted of raping and ...","author":422344,"featured_media":81627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/08131746\/shutterstock_148170659.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/08131746\/shutterstock_148170659.jpg","formated_date":"June 8, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#9df2dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}