{"id":211,"date":"2009-08-05T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/its-ok-if-youre-a-republican\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:02:26","slug":"its-ok-if-youre-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/its-ok-if-youre-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s OK If You&rsquo;re a Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/aug\/05\/tangled-web-deception-john-ensign-wove\/\">a story about the latest in the Ensign affairs<\/a> sums up the press\u2019s reaction to sexual indiscretions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember that when a Democrat has a sex scandal (Clinton, Spitzer, Edwards, etc.), a hypocritical, immoral adulterer has been exposed for what he is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When a Republican is involved (Ensign, Sanford, Vitter, etc.), a decent, God-fearing Christian only showed he is human, and this uncharacteristic lapse in judgment should not overshadow his strong moral character and dedication to his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions? Remember IOKIYAR (It&#8217;s Okay If You&#8217;re A Republican).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on a story about the latest in the Ensign affairs sums up the press\u2019s reaction to sexual indiscretions. It&#8217;s important to remember that when a Democrat has a sex scandal (Clinton, Spitzer, Edwards, etc.), a hypocritical, immoral adulterer has been exposed for what he is. When a Republican is involved (Ensign, Sanford, Vitter,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/its-ok-if-youre-a-republican\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}