{"id":3028,"date":"2013-07-27T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2013-07-27T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T17:23:12","slug":"this-slug-should-slither-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"This slug should slither away"},"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>Bob Filner is a slug.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it. The San Diego mayor has all but described himself that way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/07\/bob-filner-announcement-sexual-harassment-94815.html?hp=l12\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/07\/bob-filner-announcement-sexual-harassment-94815.html?hp=l12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s admitted to groping women, saying unbelievably crass things to them, accosting them, making their working lives miserable. He needs to resign his office. But he won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Filner, the former Democratic congressman from southern California, instead says he&#8217;ll enter two weeks or rehabilitation to cure himself of the\u00a0demons that drive him to do these horrible things.<\/p>\n<p>The man doesn&#8217;t get it. He doesn&#8217;t understand that he no longer can represent his fine city.<\/p>\n<p>Filner is just the latest pol to get himself into some serious political trouble. The other, of course, is Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who&#8217;s now running for mayor of New York. I&#8217;ve already declared my desire for Weiner to stay in the race and let voters cast him aside &#8212; which they should do.<\/p>\n<p>Filner needs to take another course. He&#8217;s already in the office. He&#8217;s already betrayed the trust of everyone who&#8217;s supported him.<\/p>\n<p>Filner needs to go to rehab <em>as a private citizen<\/em>, try to fix what ails him and perhaps try to reassemble what&#8217;s left of his life. And it&#8217;s going to take a lot longer than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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>Bob Filner is a slug. Don&#8217;t take my word for it. The San Diego mayor has all but described himself that way. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/07\/bob-filner-announcement-sexual-harassment-94815.html?hp=l12 He&#8217;s admitted to groping women, saying unbelievably crass things to them, accosting them, making their working lives miserable. He needs to resign his office. But he won&#8217;t. Filner, the former Democratic congressman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This slug should slither away<\/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":[1],"tags":[402,684,1340,4237],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anthony-weiner","tag-bob-filner","tag-democratic-politics","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","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=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}