{"id":179505,"date":"2018-01-20T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/20\/is-this-the-proper-use-of-the-use-of-the-term-ironic\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:46:00","slug":"is-this-the-proper-use-of-the-use-of-the-term-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/20\/is-this-the-proper-use-of-the-use-of-the-term-ironic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This the Proper use of the use of the Term Ironic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Meehan (R-PA) who has been a major figure on the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s work on sexual harassment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/patrick-meehan-sexual-harassment.html\">has been removed from the committee for sexually harassing an aide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle his own misconduct complaint after a former aide accused him last year of making unwanted romantic overtures to her, according to several people familiar with the settlement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A married father of three, Mr. Meehan, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure, according to three people who worked with the office and four others with whom she discussed her tenure there.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But after the woman became involved in a serious relationship with someone outside the office last year, Mr. Meehan professed his romantic desires for her \u2014 first in person, and then in a handwritten letter \u2014 and he grew hostile when she did not reciprocate, the people familiar with her time in the office said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Life in the office became untenable, so she initiated the complaint process, started working from home and ultimately left the job. She later reached a confidential agreement with Mr. Meehan\u2019s office that included a settlement for an undisclosed amount to be paid from Mr. Meehan\u2019s congressional office fund.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Yeah, this is getting to be regular thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Meehan (R-PA) who has been a major figure on the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s work on sexual harassment, has been removed from the committee for sexually harassing an aide: Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,387,448],"class_list":["post-179505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}