{"id":422,"date":"2007-07-08T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:14:03","slug":"just-like-his-father-villaraigosas-family-life-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Just like his father, Villaraigosa&#8217;s family life falls apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/ci_6321893?source=most_viewed\">Chris Weinkopf writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By now, everyone knows the story: Antonio fell in love, got married, settled down and had children. He named the boy for himself &#8211; Antonio Jr. But Antonio&#8217;s interests and his heart lay elsewhere. Eventually, he left the marriage and his family, and took up with another woman.<\/p>\n<p>I write not about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but his father, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganslaw.ca.gov\/cgi\/prosoma.dll?searchby=offender&amp;id=27999111C8632\">Antonio Villar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Antonio was 5 years old, his dad left home, devastating his young son. Compounding the injury, Villar would go on to start a new family, with a new son, who, like Antonio, was nicknamed Tony.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio would see his dad but a few more times, ever. The abandonment left scars that, by his own testimony, lasted a lifetime. It also fueled a cycle of familial breakdown, culminating in Villaraigosa&#8217;s admission last week that, caught up in an adulterous affair, he was leaving his family, too.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, this is where the similarities end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Weinkopf writes: By now, everyone knows the story: Antonio fell in love, got married, settled down and had children. He named the boy for himself &#8211; Antonio Jr. But Antonio&#8217;s interests and his heart lay elsewhere. Eventually, he left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=422\">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-422","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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}