{"id":363,"date":"2016-05-23T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=363"},"modified":"2016-05-23T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:44:50","slug":"hasterts-high-school-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Hastert&#8217;s High School Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8222;You know, Mr. Speaker, you and I have a lot in common,&#8220; Kean said. &#8222;You were a high school history teacher?&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Yes,&#8220; Hastert replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;And so was I,&#8220; Kean said, reminiscing about his two-year stint as a teacher at St. Mark&#8217;s, the Massachusetts prep school that he had attended as a student. &#8222;And you were a wrestling coach?&#8220; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Yes,&#8220; Hastert said, clearly softening. &#8222;Yes, I loved that.&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014Philip Shenon, <em>The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation<\/em>, (New York: Twelve, 2008), 229.<\/p>\n<p>From Shenon&#8217;s work it seems quite possible the 9\/11 Commission received an extension in its\u00a0mandate in part because of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives&#8216; fond memories of sexually abusing teenage boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;You know, Mr. Speaker, you and I have a lot in common,&#8220; Kean said. &#8222;You were a high school history teacher?&#8220; &#8222;Yes,&#8220; Hastert replied. &#8222;And so was I,&#8220; Kean said, reminiscing about his two-year stint as a teacher at St. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=363\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}