{"id":68006,"date":"2018-09-18T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68006"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:08","slug":"i-seem-to-have-recovered-a-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68006","title":{"rendered":"I Seem To Have Recovered A Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is difficult for me, so please bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>It was in 1988.\u00a0 \u00a0I was at a party at a duplex at, I think, Franklin and Pleasant in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>I was there with a woman, a friend of mine.\u00a0 We&#8217;d been drinking.<\/p>\n<p>A lot.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, and without warning,\u00a0Dianne Feinstein,\u00a0Patrick Leahy,\u00a0Dick Durbin,\u00a0Sheldon Whitehouse,\u00a0Amy Klobuchar,\u00a0Al Franken,\u00a0Chris Coons,\u00a0Richard Blumenthal,\u00a0Mazie Hirono,\u00a0Cory Booker and Kamala Harris walked into the room and grabbed her butt.\u00a0 Each of them, in order.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it looked strange, but it was Minneapolis in the &#8217;80s.\u00a0 Anything could happen.\u00a0 Or that&#8217;s how I remember it.<\/p>\n<p>My friend was really hammered, so she didn&#8217;t really react as 10 future Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary committee (and one future former member) grabbed her in an act that is considered Sexual Assault when committed by anyone but Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a memory I recovered, coincidentally, only yesterday, after three decades of aggressive therapy.\u00a0 But I believe accusers, even accusers I haven&#8217;t seen in three decades.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t diviulge my friend&#8217;s name, but her father was a guy from Newark, New Jersey, named &#8220;T-Bone&#8221;, as I recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is difficult for me, so please bear with me. It was in 1988.\u00a0 \u00a0I was at a party at a duplex at, I think, Franklin and Pleasant in Minneapolis. I was there with a woman, a friend of mine.\u00a0 We&#8217;d been drinking. A lot. Suddenly, and without warning,\u00a0Dianne Feinstein,\u00a0Patrick Leahy,\u00a0Dick Durbin,\u00a0Sheldon Whitehouse,\u00a0Amy Klobuchar,\u00a0Al Franken,\u00a0Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-68006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68011,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006\/revisions\/68011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}