{"id":28002,"date":"2019-08-27T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28002"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:09:08","slug":"mit-director-resigns-over-universitys-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/08\/27\/mit-director-resigns-over-universitys-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT director resigns over university\u2019s ties to Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Post <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/21\/mit-director-resigns-over-universitys-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">MIT director resigns over university\u2019s ties to Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s prestigious Media Lab is resigning \u2014 because he\u2019s \u201cashamed\u201d over the research center\u2019s link to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I disowned MIT for accepting money from David Koch to build a building named after him, I had in mind the pernicious influence people like this would have over MIT. Here is another perfect example of being too eager to accept money from anybody who is willing to give it. If bribery with child prostitution is part of the picture, it is far worse than I imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Post has the article MIT director resigns over university\u2019s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. A director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s prestigious Media Lab is resigning \u2014 because he\u2019s \u201cashamed\u201d over the research center\u2019s link to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report. When I disowned MIT for accepting money from David Koch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28003,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002\/revisions\/28003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}