{"id":9881,"date":"2020-07-22T11:44:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:47:37","slug":"former-kimball-coach-shares-story-following-closed-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/former-kimball-coach-shares-story-following-closed-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kimball coach shares story following closed investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A former Kimball High School football coach and teacher who says false allegations of sexual assault cost him his job&nbsp;is sharing his story.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Stearns County Attorney&#8217;s Office declined to file charges against John &#8220;Johnny&#8221; Benson, 27, in May following the county&#8217;s investigation into what Benson and an attorney&nbsp;describe&nbsp;as &#8220;blatantly false allegations&#8221; of sexual assault.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want people to know that I didn&#8217;t do anything wrong,&#8221; Benson said during a Saturday interview with the Times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read entire article&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/07\/22\/former-kimball-coach-shares-story-following-closed-investigation\/5472285002\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Kimball High School football coach and teacher who says false allegations of sexual assault cost him his job&nbsp;is sharing his story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-johnny-benson","wp-image-borders"],"views":3259,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9884,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}