{"id":6607,"date":"2018-05-04T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2018-05-04T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:41:58","slug":"a-statement-from-the-academy-bill-cosby-roman-polanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/a-statement-from-the-academy-bill-cosby-roman-polanski\/","title":{"rendered":"A Statement From The Academy &#8211; Bill Cosby &#038; Roman Polanski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2445\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/academylogo.jpg?resize=107%2C107\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019 Board of Governors met on Tuesday night (May 1) and has voted to expel actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski from its membership in accordance with the organization&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/about\/standards-conduct-and-process-submitting-claims-misconduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Standards of Conduct<\/a>. The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy\u2019s values of respect for human dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019 Board of Governors met on Tuesday night (May 1) and has voted to expel actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski from its membership in accordance with the organization&#8217;s Standards of Conduct. The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy\u2019s values&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/a-statement-from-the-academy-bill-cosby-roman-polanski\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Statement From The Academy &#8211; Bill Cosby &#038; Roman Polanski<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}