{"id":849,"date":"2007-03-03T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=849"},"modified":"2007-03-03T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T19:38:00","slug":"is-the-mlgw-scandal-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-king-willie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/is-the-mlgw-scandal-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-king-willie\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the MLGW scandal the beginning of the end for King Willie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read this WMC-TV story<\/a> about MLGW head Joseph Lee’s resignation and Mayor Herenton’s refusal to accept it. What’s really interesting, though, is not the story itself, but the dozens and dozens of reader comments that have been left in response – they’re almost universally sick of King Willie and his antics as mayor. There are a few comments in the “if you don’t like Memphis, leave” vein, and there are a couple of comments in support of the mayor – but those are few and far between. I’d estimate the comments are running at least 90% opposed to Herenton.<\/p>\n

It’s beginning to make me wonder if King Willie is as unbeatable in the October 4 election as people would like to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read this WMC-TV story about MLGW head Joseph Lee’s resignation and Mayor Herenton’s refusal to accept it. What’s really interesting, though, is not the story itself, but the dozens and dozens of reader comments that have been left in response – they’re almost universally sick of King Willie and his antics as mayor. … Continue reading “Is the MLGW scandal the beginning of the end for King Willie?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}