{"id":305,"date":"2003-10-07T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T00:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/10\/07\/grope-gate\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2003-10-08T00:33:15","slug":"grope-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/10\/07\/grope-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Grope-gate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Wilson II? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe<\/a>.                 A Democratic State Congress and a Republican Governor with criminal                 allegations make for a wacky situation in the coming months.                 Grope-gate! Leak-gate! Hitler-gate! Perhaps this is the beginning                 of the death knell for Republican credibility? A metronome that,                 on the cusp of swinging all the way to the right, will head towards                 the center. At least two horrible proposals, Prop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/10\/06\/EDGOB247941.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">53<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/10\/05\/EDGDO22TEH1.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">54<\/a>,                 failed tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Just finished two chapters of Michael Moore&#8217;s new                 book. Fact-based hilarity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=62-0446532231-0\" target=\"_blank\">Get                 it now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/10\/07\/grope-gate\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Wilson II? Maybe. A Democratic State Congress and a Republican Governor with criminal allegations make for a wacky situation in the coming months. Grope-gate! Leak-gate! Hitler-gate! Perhaps this is the beginning of the death knell for Republican credibility? A metronome that, on the cusp of swinging all the way to the right, will head &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/10\/07\/grope-gate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grope-gate!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/10\/07\/grope-gate\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}