{"id":346,"date":"2007-06-11T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2007-12-09T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:14:57","slug":"lao-mayor-takes-blame-for-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"LAO: Mayor Takes Blame For Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/\">Kevin Roderick writes on LAObserved.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa knows how to draw a crowd. His news conference this morning to discuss his marriage was reportedly packed. &quot;I take responsibility for what is happening and I feel a personal sense of failure about it,&quot; he said. &quot;And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m prepared to say.&quot; He turned away questions about an affair while he was mayor, responding &quot;Those kinds of questions are inappropriate. It&#8217;s a matter between me and my family.&quot; He called his wife Corina an &quot;exceptional human being in every sense of the word.&quot; Villaraigosa&#8217;s two oldest daughters from a previous relationship &mdash; Marisela Villar and Prisila Villar-Contreras &mdash; attended, as did his brother Rob Delgado, sister Deborah Villar, and her son, Aaron Monarrez. Corina and the couple&#8217;s two teenage children &mdash; Antonio Jr. and Natalia Fe &mdash; did not attend. Here&#8217;s a photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2007\/02\/captions.php\">happier times<\/a> for both the mayor and another local news figure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/ci_6114689\">Daily News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-mayor12jun12,0,4342633.story?coll=la-home-center\">Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knbc.com\/politics\/13479045\/detail.html?dl=mainclick\">NBC4<\/a> with video<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Roderick writes on LAObserved.com: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa knows how to draw a crowd. His news conference this morning to discuss his marriage was reportedly packed. &quot;I take responsibility for what is happening and I feel a personal sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=346\">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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antonio-villaraigosa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}