{"id":184764,"date":"2012-01-26T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/26\/duke-meet-newt\/"},"modified":"2012-01-26T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:50:00","slug":"duke-meet-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/26\/duke-meet-newt\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke, Meet Newt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the Republican establishment&#8217;s heads exploding over the possibility of a Newt candidacy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/government\/thehall\/article_d9fc4722-4853-11e1-92b1-0019bb2963f4.html\">Gingrich has been endorsed by former Congressman, and convicted felon, Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Jailed ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham wants Newt Gingrich to know he&#8217;s got the Republican presidential candidate&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham apparently has been watching the Republican presidential primary debates while spending 100 months in a Tucson, Ariz. federal prison. Cunningham, a Republican who represented northern San Diego, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion in 2005 in one of the biggest federal bribery scandals in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham tells Gingrich in an electronic message he says he sent to the candidate last month that his fellow prisoners, and their families, support Gingrich<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the Republican establishment&#8217;s heads exploding over the possibility of a Newt candidacy, Gingrich has been endorsed by former Congressman, and convicted felon, Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham: Jailed ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham wants Newt Gingrich to know he&#8217;s got the Republican presidential candidate&#8217;s back. Cunningham apparently has been watching the Republican presidential primary debates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,977,1019,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184764"}],"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=184764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}