{"id":825,"date":"2015-03-23T00:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-03-23T00:42:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:42:32","slug":"what-brought-schock-to-his-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/what-brought-schock-to-his-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"What Brought Schock To His Knees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot take full credit for <strong>Aaron Schock <\/strong>resigning.\u00a0 Exactly what prompted the 33-year-old Republican to leave the <em>House of Representatives <\/em>is still a mystery &#8211; but one that I expect will be solved soon.\u00a0 <strong>Meghan McCain <\/strong>says that Schock&#8217;s downfall was &#8220;ultimately flaming out&#8221;.\u00a0 Truer words were never spoken.\u00a0 Resigning must have been a last-minute decision.\u00a0 Just last week, he was accused of spending $5K on a replica of <strong>President Obama<\/strong>&#8216;s podium, which is known as &#8220;The Falcon&#8221;.\u00a0 This adds to the previous scandals about his <strong><em>Downton Abbey<\/em><\/strong> office, taking his &#8220;personal photographer&#8221; on official trips, to say nothing of lingering questions about his sexuality and his penchant for quoting <strong>Taylor Swift <\/strong>lyrics.\u00a0 Aaron&#8217;s dad, <strong>Dr. Schock<\/strong>, said, &#8220;Aaron wears stylish clothing and yet he&#8217;s not gay&#8230;and he&#8217;s not married and he&#8217;s not running around with women.\u00a0 Everyone&#8217;s throwing up their arms because they can&#8217;t figure out Aaron.&#8221;\u00a0 Oh, I think we can.\u00a0 Eclipsing the other issues are allegations of sketchy real estate deals with supporters.\u00a0 The FBI has launched an investigation and plans to bring him before a grand jury.\u00a0 Dr. Schock was prophetic when he summed it up this way: &#8220;Two years from now he&#8217;ll be successful, if he&#8217;s not in jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot take full credit for Aaron Schock resigning.\u00a0 Exactly what prompted the 33-year-old Republican to leave the House of Representatives is still a mystery &#8211; but one that I expect will be solved soon.\u00a0 Meghan McCain says that Schock&#8217;s downfall was &#8220;ultimately flaming out&#8221;.\u00a0 Truer words were never spoken.\u00a0 Resigning must have been a<\/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-825","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\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}