{"id":181346,"date":"2016-07-23T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/23\/least-surprising-news-out-of-the-republican-national-convention\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:49:00","slug":"least-surprising-news-out-of-the-republican-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/23\/least-surprising-news-out-of-the-republican-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Surprising News out of the Republican National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the RNC <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/07\/21\/male-escorts-are-making-crazy-money-at-the-rnc\/\">was a bonanza for male prostitutes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It\u2019s been a great week for gay escorts in Cleveland.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Male prostitutes contacted by The Post said business is booming and Republican National Convention attendees \u2014 most of them married \u2014 are clamoring for their services.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cBusiness has been way better. I\u2019ve seen 10 clients so far,\u201d one male escort said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMost of them were first-timers. You could tell they were nervous, but once they became more comfortable, they seemed to be having a good time.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Another escort said he had already earned $1,600 since Monday \u2014 over six times the amount he usually makes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">One gigolo who charges $250 an hour said he\u2019s been making about $800 per day since the convention kicked off \u2014 all from men visiting from Florida, Louisiana and Washington, DC.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cUsually I need to go out of town,\u201d he said with a chuckle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Most men paid to have sex, but one client requested to \u201cdo his business in the corner\u201d while watching his wife in bed with the escort.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe Republicans have a lot of delegates in the closet, let\u2019s put it that way.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Party of family values my ass.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2016\/07\/21\/masc-only-new-york-post-reports-that-male-hookers-are-making-crazy-money-at-gop-convention\/\">Joe.My.God.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the RNC was a bonanza for male prostitutes: It\u2019s been a great week for gay escorts in Cleveland.Male prostitutes contacted by The Post said business is booming and Republican National Convention attendees \u2014 most of them married \u2014 are clamoring for their services.\u201cBusiness has been way better. I\u2019ve seen 10 clients &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,1051,1030,978,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-values","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181346"}],"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=181346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}