{"id":626,"date":"2017-12-02T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=626"},"modified":"2017-12-02T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T17:35:58","slug":"taking-care-of-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Taking care of each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has made payments totaling $359,000 to settle six claims brought against Members of that institution, including for sexual harassment.\u00a0 One such payout, reported this week, was for $84,000 paid to a former employee of Texas Republican Blake Farhenthold, who lodged a complaint about his comments to her about his &#8220;sexual fantasies&#8221; about her and, presumably, other offenses.\u00a0 The Congressman refused to confirm the settlement because mandatory nondisclosure agreements under the Congressional Accountability Act [sic] prohibited him from commenting.\u00a0 (Farhenthold, who used to own the internet domain\u00a0<em>blow-me.org<\/em>, said that he &#8220;100 percent support[s] more transparency.&#8221;)\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s been at least one other sex-related payout, but others were for other forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><em>Accountability is at the very heart of democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has made payments totaling $359,000 to settle six claims brought against Members of that institution, including for sexual harassment.\u00a0 One such payout, reported this week, was for $84,000 paid to a former employee of Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}