{"id":23,"date":"2006-09-30T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/09\/30\/foleys-folly\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T00:55:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T04:55:51","slug":"foleys-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/09\/30\/foleys-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Foley&#8217;s Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you surely know that Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) has resigned in disgrace\u00a0&#8220;amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page.&#8221;\u00a0 But did you also know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/29\/AR2006092901574.html\">Foley\u00a0&#8220;was credited with writing the sexual-predator provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such irony cries out for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Foley&#8217;s Folly<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There once was a Congressman Foley,<br \/>\nWho acted all pious and holy.<br \/>\nHelping kids was his cause,<br \/>\nBut he broke his own laws,<br \/>\nSending sleaze through the net. Holy Moley!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/poetry.html\">political verse is collected here.)<\/a><br \/>\n[tags]Mark Foley, Congressman Foley, House Page Scandal, House Pages, Explicit Internet Messages, Florida Election, Ethics Committee[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you surely know that Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) has resigned in disgrace\u00a0&#8220;amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page.&#8221;\u00a0 But did you also know that Foley\u00a0&#8220;was credited with writing the sexual-predator provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,21,20,14,2,34,6,7,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}