{"id":36876,"date":"2013-07-31T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36876"},"modified":"2013-07-31T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:33:44","slug":"rowling-donates-court-damages-to-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36876","title":{"rendered":"Rowling donates court damages to troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-23515054\">BBC<\/a> which, as a follow-up to our post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36624\">JK Rowlings&#8217; stolen valor<\/a> tells that she sued her lawyer for leaking the fact that she wrote the book and not some pseudonymous former military man.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court heard Rowling had been &#8220;left dismayed and distressed by such a fundamental betrayal of trust&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gossage, Ms Callegari and Russells all apologised and the firm agreed to pay the author&#8217;s legal costs.<\/p>\n<p>It also agreed to make a payment, by way of damages, to the Soldiers&#8217; Charity, formerly known as the Army Benevolent Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling explained that she was donating the money &#8220;partly as a thank you to the army people&#8221; who helped her with research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But also because writing a hero who is a veteran has given me an even greater appreciation and understanding of exactly how much this charity does for ex-servicemen and their families, and how much that support is needed,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Rowling said she would also be donating all the royalties for the book to the charity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, I feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave sends us a link to the BBC which, as a follow-up to our post about &hellip; <a title=\"Rowling donates court damages to troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36876\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rowling donates court damages to troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}