{"id":179642,"date":"2017-12-07T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/07\/i-hate-feet-of-clay\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T01:28:00","slug":"i-hate-feet-of-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/07\/i-hate-feet-of-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Feet of Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/congress\/article188543154.html\">Sentor Al Franken will be resigning from the Senate following sexual harassment allegations<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Al Franken announced Thursday that he will resign from the Senate amid a growing number of women accusing the Democrat of kissing, groping and touching them without their consent. <\/p>\n<p>Franken, who said some of the allegations were not true and others he \u201cremembered differently,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/a-second-woman-accuses-al-franken-of-inappropriate-touching.html\">considered by many to be a \u201crising star\u201d in the Democratic party<\/a> that might have run for president in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming weeks, I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate,\u201d he said on the Senate floor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI of all people am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,\u201d Franken said in reference to President Donald Trump and Republican Senate hopeful Roy Moore. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why couldn&#8217;t this have been Joe Manchin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentor Al Franken will be resigning from the Senate following sexual harassment allegations: Sen. Al Franken announced Thursday that he will resign from the Senate amid a growing number of women accusing the Democrat of kissing, groping and touching them without their consent. Franken, who said some of the allegations were not true and others &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":[447,374,707,569],"class_list":["post-179642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-politics","tag-sad","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179642"}],"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=179642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}