{"id":196991,"date":"2008-03-10T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/10\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-elliot-spitzer-linked-to-prostitution-ring\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:47:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-elliot-spitzer-linked-to-prostitution-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/10\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-elliot-spitzer-linked-to-prostitution-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???  Elliot Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/10\/nyregion\/10cnd-spitzer.html?ref=nyregion\">not the sort of thing that I was expecting from Elliot Spitzer<\/a>.  He has, &#8220;been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that he has some problems with overreach and arrogance, but this is a shock to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where it goes from here, though I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">am<\/span> sure that any sympathy one feels should be reserved for his wife, Silda and his three children.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, any Republicans reading this, Schadenfreude is normal, and probably justified at this point, though obviously I&#8217;m not feeling this at this point.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the phrase, &#8220;Shanda before the Goyim&#8221; does dome to mind here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is not the sort of thing that I was expecting from Elliot Spitzer. He has, &#8220;been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month.&#8221; I&#8217;ve noticed that he has some problems with overreach and arrogance, but this is a shock to me. I&#8217;m &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1009,978,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-government","category-politics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196991"}],"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=196991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}