{"id":83292,"date":"2015-12-25T08:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83292"},"modified":"2015-12-25T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T16:22:01","slug":"remembering-edwin-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83292","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Edwin Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/justnotsaid.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/edwin-edwards-quotes.html\">Just Not Said<\/a>: In 1992, Edwards ran against white power advocate and former KKK member David Duke. Edwards, referring to his own reputation as a ladies&#8217; man, said of Duke that &#8220;the only thing we have in common is that we both have been wizards beneath the sheets.&#8221; He also feigned concern for Duke&#8217;s health due to smoke inhalation &#8220;because he&#8217;s around so many burning crosses&#8221; and when a reporter asked Edwards what he needed to do to win the election, Edwards replied &#8220;stay alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When his brother Marion told the 86-year-old Edwards that having sex with his 36-year-old wife could be dangerous, Edwards reportedly replied, &#8220;Well, Marion, if she dies, she dies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>During a 2012 press conference with his wife, a registered Republican, on his upcoming run for Congress, when asked about what use he&#8217;d found for Republicans: &#8220;You sleep with &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Not Said: In 1992, Edwards ran against white power advocate and former KKK member David Duke. Edwards, referring to his own reputation as a ladies&#8217; man, said of Duke that &#8220;the only thing we have in common is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83292","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=83292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83294,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83292\/revisions\/83294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}