{"id":11294,"date":"2009-10-01T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11294"},"modified":"2009-10-01T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T23:45:51","slug":"yisroel-pensack-the-new-york-yimes-reports-on-aid-to-an-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11294","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack: The New York Times Reports On Senator&#8217;s Aid To An Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is currently running this headline on its <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/\">home page<\/a>:&nbsp; &quot;Senator&#8217;s Aid After Affair Raises Ethics Flag&quot;.&nbsp; The  sentence on the home page under that headline  says, &quot;Experts say Senator John Ensign may have violated ethics laws by helping an aide get work after having an affair with his wife.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>After figuring out that it was the senator&#8217;s help, or aid, to his aide that  raised the flag rather than the aide himself standing at the flagpole, I was still wondering whether the aide might have been unethically rewarded for having  an affair with the senator&#8217;s wife, or whether the senator himself had an affair with the aide&#8217;s wife.&nbsp; I hope nobody involved got AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the article and headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/02\/us\/politics\/02ensign.html?hp\">here<\/a> clarify everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is currently running this headline on its home page:&nbsp; &quot;Senator&#8217;s Aid After Affair Raises Ethics Flag&quot;.&nbsp; The sentence on the home page under that headline says, &quot;Experts say Senator John Ensign may have violated ethics laws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,3400,63,169,24,18818],"tags":[19170,29796,19171],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery","category-aids","category-infidelity","category-new-york-times","category-politics","category-yisroel-pensack","tag-aide","tag-ethics","tag-senator-john-ensign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}