{"id":25350,"date":"2017-10-11T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25350"},"modified":"2017-10-11T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T03:23:00","slug":"sordid-past-catches-up-with-this-mogul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25350","title":{"rendered":"Sordid past catches up with this mogul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harvey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25351\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harvey-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvey Weinstein once was called &#8220;God&#8221; by award-winning actor Meryl Streep.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like Streep&#8217;s version of &#8220;God&#8221; has taken a mighty fall and he&#8217;s feeling it right where it hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein is a once-notable agent to the stars and a big-time Democratic Party donor. It turns out the fellow&#8217;s got a seedy, sordid and salacious past.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations of sexual harassment &#8212; and even rape &#8212; have emerged to sink this guy, who this week was actually <em>fired<\/em> from the company he co-founded. Actors have bailed on him left and right. Women have come forward to accuse him of seeking to do naughty things with and to them.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse &#8212; and yes they can get worse &#8212; Weinstein&#8217;s wife has announced she&#8217;s leaving him.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and then there&#8217;s the political side of it. All those Democratic pols, particularly the women who run for or who currently occupy public office? They&#8217;re donating the cash that Weinstein gave to their political efforts to charities, notably those that deal with women who are abused or harassed.<\/p>\n<p>I get that we&#8217;re talking virtually about <em>allegations<\/em>. I haven&#8217;t heard of anything that&#8217;s been proven.<\/p>\n<p>But this big-time big hitter is paying the price he likely ought to pay. All those allegations &#8212; they appear to be countless &#8212; seem to add up to a disgusting and disgraceful past that has caught up with this guy.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Weinstein once was called &#8220;God&#8221; by award-winning actor Meryl Streep. Well, it looks like Streep&#8217;s version of &#8220;God&#8221; has taken a mighty fall and he&#8217;s feeling it right where it hurts. Weinstein is a once-notable agent to the stars and a big-time Democratic Party donor. It turns out the fellow&#8217;s got a seedy, sordid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sordid past catches up with this mogul<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1337,7358,4237],"class_list":["post-25350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-democratic-party","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25352,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions\/25352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}