{"id":247,"date":"2009-06-17T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/06\/17\/ensign-loses-leadership-position-retains-sainthood\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:13:50","slug":"ensign-loses-leadership-position-retains-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/06\/17\/ensign-loses-leadership-position-retains-sainthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensign Loses Leadership Position, Retains Sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard that Nevada Sen. John Ensign admitted to a marital affair, making him only the latest political evangelical hypocrite.&#160; He resigned today from his position as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.&#160; But a file photo used by AP in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090617\/ap_on_go_co\/ensign_affair_1\">reporting the story today<\/a>, suggests he still retains his sainthood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthcommonsense.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef0115702a7833970c-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ensign w. halo\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"297\" alt=\"ensign w. halo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthcommonsense.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef0115702a7845970c-pi\" width=\"443\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard that Nevada Sen. John Ensign admitted to a marital affair, making him only the latest political evangelical hypocrite.&#160; He resigned today from his position as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.&#160; But a file photo used by AP in reporting the story today, suggests he still retains his sainthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}