{"id":1586,"date":"2007-11-28T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:31:11","slug":"fired-wonkette-blogger-turns-up-at-aolcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Ex Wonkette Blogger Turns Up at AOL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/11\/28\/fired-wonkette-blogger-turns-up-at-aolcom\/\">From BigHeadDC<\/a>: &quot;Much to the chagrin of several recently laid-off AOL staffers, former Wonkette editor <strong>Ken Layne<\/strong> is now freelancing a column called &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/political-machine\/2007\/11\/21\/a-political-thanksgiving\/\">Outrage!<\/a>&rdquo; for AOL.com. Several permanent AOL staffers have been replaced by temp workers, like Layne.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the report that Layne was fired from Wonkette, <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/politics\/dept%27-of-personnel-department\/important-changes-regarding-your-wonkette-306226.php\">Ken gave two months notice<\/a> and helped with the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Ken emails me about his AOL gig: &quot;I&#8217;m just free-lancing a weekly column for a blog called Political Machine &#8212; one of many free-lance things I&#8217;m doing now. Am not a temp worker or any kind of employee, just a writer like always.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BigHeadDC: &quot;Much to the chagrin of several recently laid-off AOL staffers, former Wonkette editor Ken Layne is now freelancing a column called &ldquo;Outrage!&rdquo; for AOL.com. Several permanent AOL staffers have been replaced by temp workers, like Layne.&quot; Contrary to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-layne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}