{"id":1402,"date":"2004-12-03T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2004-12-03T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T14:06:40","slug":"note-from-a-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Note from a scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article.php?id=5360&amp;issue=2004-12-04\">Spectator<\/a> this week will have learned from Stephen Glover&#8217;s column that the whole Blunkett\/Fortier affair came out because a secretary in Blunkett&#8217;s office has been conducting an affair of her own with a senior executive in News International, who passed the story, at Blunkett&#8217;s request, to the <em>News of the World.<\/em> Glover does not name the executive, though.<\/p>\n\n<p>It was Les Hinton.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the Spectator this week will have learned from Stephen Glover&#8217;s column that the whole Blunkett\/Fortier affair came out because a secretary in Blunkett&#8217;s office has been conducting an affair of her own with a senior executive in News &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}