{"id":92116,"date":"2026-08-07T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/surreal-absurd-olympian-charged-over-reflecting-pool-speaks-out\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:44:06","slug":"surreal-absurd-olympian-charged-over-reflecting-pool-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/surreal-absurd-olympian-charged-over-reflecting-pool-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Surreal &amp; absurd&#8217;: Olympian charged over Reflecting Pool speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge on Thursday officially tossed out a case the Justice Department brought against former Olympian David Hearn, whom they <!--more--> had accused of feloniously vandalizing the Reflecting Pool earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn and his attorney Norm Eisen speak with CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins in his first interview since the DOJ dismissed the charges. He says the ordeal is not the America he knows.<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#ReflectingPool #Justice #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge on Thursday officially tossed out a case the Justice Department brought against former Olympian David Hearn, whom they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}