{"id":2982,"date":"2017-06-13T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T00:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:32:52","slug":"background-information-on-louise-mensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/2017\/06\/13\/background-information-on-louise-mensch\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Information on Louise Mensch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to queries, here is some background information on Louise Mensch, the person behind patribotics.blog, taken from a story posted on the National Public Radio website at, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=519282246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php\u2026<\/a>, which she links to from her blog. Most notably: &#8220;She was a bestselling author of books for young adults and romantic novels. She became a conservative member of the British parliament. As an aside, she&#8217;s also married to the manager of such gr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">oups as Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In Parliament, Mensch once interrogated media-magnate Rupert Murdoch over a series of scandals at his London tabloid newspapers.&#8221; See also\u202a Louise Mensch: the former British MP who scooped US media on Trump&#8217;s Russian ties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/17\/louise-mensch-trump-russia-ties-media-scoop?CMP=share_btn_tw%E2%80%AC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/\u2026\/louise-mensch-trump-russia-ti\u2026<\/a>. She describes patribotics.blog as follows: &#8220;Exposing Vladimir Putin&#8217;s War on America. Investigative journalism and analysis of the Russian hack on America\u2019s election and related topics. Pro-America, pro-democracy, pro-NATO, pro-Russia, anti-Putin.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=519282246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to queries, here is some background information on Louise Mensch, the person behind patribotics.blog, taken from a story posted on the National Public Radio website at, http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php\u2026, which she links to from her blog. Most notably: &#8220;She was a bestselling author of books for young adults and romantic novels. She became a conservative [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}