{"id":2388,"date":"2016-11-28T00:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2016-11-28T00:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T08:45:04","slug":"mike-yennis-gay-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/mike-yennis-gay-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Yenni&#8217;s Gay Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago I reported about a married Republican politician in Louisiana who allegedly picked up a kid at a high school luncheon, started sexting with him, met him at his job at the mall food court, brought him a gift of some undies, and then made out with him in the men&#8217;s room.\u00a0 Does any of that ring a bell?\u00a0 Well, it doesn&#8217;t with the politician in question.\u00a0 In an interview, <strong>Mike Yenni <\/strong>claims that much of the story was made up. \u00a0While he doesn&#8217;t want to go through it &#8220;line by line&#8221;, he says he never saw the lad at any high school function.\u00a0 In fact, they first met when they were both a part of a &#8220;group text&#8221;.\u00a0 When asked why he was sending explicit texts to a 17-year-old, he says it was &#8220;a stupid decision to send a text to, in my opinion, another consenting adult that we had, we had, we had some off-color texts.&#8221;\u00a0 When asked if he meant the things he said in the texts, Yenni says, &#8220;Probably not, &#8217;cause nothing was acted upon.\u00a0 There was no sex.&#8221;\u00a0 When asked if he bought the boy underwear, Mike said, &#8220;There are fictional elements to this story.&#8221;\u00a0 When asked if they kissed, Yenni said, &#8220;There was no sex.\u00a0 There was no sexual contact&#8221;.\u00a0 Well, I guess it depends on how you define &#8220;sexual contact&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago I reported about a married Republican politician in Louisiana who allegedly picked up a kid at a high school luncheon, started sexting with him, met him at his job at the mall food court, brought him a gift of some undies, and then made out with him in the men&#8217;s room.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}