{"id":429780,"date":"2026-05-03T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:48:10","slug":"mairia-cahill-santised-story-of-michael-jacksons-life-tells-us-a-lot-about-what-we-choose-not-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429780\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e1ir\u00eda Cahill: Santised story of Michael Jackson\u2019s life tells us a lot about what we choose not to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">New biopic about the undoubted musical genius left fails to acknowleseveral allegations of child abuse\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Jackson during his civil trial in California in 2002. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chael Jackson trial.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Jackson during his civil trial in California in 2002. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He is an alleged paedophile, and yet you probably ignore that fact, because of the way his music still pulses through you. In traffic, you tap on your steering wheel in time to the beat. You replay him in your head in the shower. His music is stitched through your memories of weddings, hooleys and heartbreaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Most of us push the more repulsive allegations of abusing little boys far into the recesses of our minds, because his musical talent was transcendent \u2014 a luminous, heart-thumping, intricate fusion of notes and steps that shaped the soundtrack of our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New biopic about the undoubted musical genius left fails to acknowleseveral allegations of child abuse Michael Jackson during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12780,321,969,93,61,60,89527,3415],"class_list":["post-429780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-catholic-church","tag-celebrities","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mairia-cahill","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}