{"id":2438,"date":"2011-02-14T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:19:22","slug":"david-gilmour-covers-treatment-for-alleged-computer-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/02\/david-gilmour-covers-treatment-for-alleged-computer-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour covers treatment for alleged computer hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Scotland&#8217;s Daily Record newspaper, Pink Floyd guitarist <strong>David Gilmour <\/strong>is paying for psychiatric treatment for alleged computer hacker <strong>Gary KcKinnon<\/strong> (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon, a 45-year-old man from Glasgow who has Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome, has been fighting extradition to the United States for supposedly hacking into NASA and Pentagon networks a decade ago to search for evidence of UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour has been an advocate for McKinnon, participating in a charity re-recording of Graham Nash&#8217;s &#8220;Chicago&#8221; to benefit his defense and distributing updates about the case through his Web site and Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>Government funding for McKinnon&#8217;s treatment was dropped last month due to cutbacks at the London National Health Service trust that was paying for his care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Scotland&#8217;s Daily Record newspaper, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is paying for psychiatric treatment for alleged computer hacker Gary KcKinnon (pictured). McKinnon, a 45-year-old man from Glasgow who has Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome, has been fighting extradition to the United States for supposedly hacking into NASA and Pentagon networks a decade ago to search for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-gilmour","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}