{"id":18250,"date":"2018-11-10T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18250"},"modified":"2018-11-10T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:06:41","slug":"wait-what-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/10\/wait-what-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get notifications from <em><strong>AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em> concerning lobbyist activities in Washington concerning the Middle East. Boring? Sure &#8211; until you run across this little bit concerning the Keene Group:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A family affair<\/strong>: Keene&#8217;s wife,\u00a0<strong><em>Donna Wiesner<\/em><\/strong>, has registered to lobby on the contract [with Algeria]. Interestingly, her registration form lists \u201cmarriage\u201d as her compensation under the contract. \u201cIf I earn something, she gets it,\u201d Keene said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18251\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?resize=800%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?w=1671&amp;ssl=1 1671w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?resize=300%2C50&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?resize=768%2C129&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?resize=1024%2C172&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?resize=250%2C42&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?resize=150%2C25&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KeeneLobbyist.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I send my laughing thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for this day brightener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get notifications from AL Monitor concerning lobbyist activities in Washington concerning the Middle East. Boring? Sure &#8211; until you run across this little bit concerning the Keene Group: A family affair: Keene&#8217;s wife,\u00a0Donna Wiesner, has registered to lobby on the contract [with Algeria]. Interestingly, her registration form lists \u201cmarriage\u201d \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/10\/wait-what-3\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18253,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions\/18253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}