{"id":1761,"date":"2009-06-25T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2009-06-25T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:21:02","slug":"lessons-from-gov-sanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/25\/lessons-from-gov-sanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Gov. Sanford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Linda Killian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/linda_killian.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Killian<\/a>, director of <a title=\"BU's Washington Journalism Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/washjocenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU&#8217;s Washington Journalism Center <\/a>and author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"The Freshman: What Happened to the Republican Revolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/basic\/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813399505\" target=\"_blank\">The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution<\/a><\/em>?,&#8221; has known disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford since he was first elected to Congress in 1994.\u00a0 In a <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/opinion\/2009\/06\/25\/sanfords-argentina-affair-is-a-lesson-on-character-and-power.html\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>, Killian suggests the lesson from Sanford&#8217;s downfall is that there&#8217;s &#8220;<em>a sense of invulnerability and being above the rules that can overtake elected officials<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda Killian, 202-756-7801,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lkillian@bu.edu\">lkillian@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College of Communication Professor Linda Killian, director of BU&#8217;s Washington Journalism Center and author of &#8220;The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?,&#8221; has known disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford since he was first elected to Congress in 1994.\u00a0 In a U.S. News &amp; World Report commentary, Killian suggests the lesson from Sanford&#8217;s downfall is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[943,1360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}