{"id":82,"date":"2005-08-02T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2005-08-02T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T17:39:58","slug":"pool-payola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/pool-payola\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool payola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, this is fitting.  Schmuck by the pool trying to impress a gal and ends up costing his company million$.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Sony Music promo exec unknowingly sparked Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s major payola investigation when he started hitting on a woman at a poolside bar at a Miami hotel last year. The exec bragged about some of the excesses in his line of business, according to chatter in music industry circles. The executive must have felt pretty good, as the attentive woman probably hung on his every word. He must have thought he was spinning a Gold Record.<\/p>\n<p>But not so fast. It turns out the woman who was the object of his affection worked in Spitzer&#8217;s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/lisawood.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/how-spitzer-got-to-sony.html\">Full post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, this is fitting. Schmuck by the pool trying to impress a gal and ends up costing his company million$. A Sony Music promo exec unknowingly sparked Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s major payola investigation when he started hitting on a woman at a poolside bar at a Miami hotel last year. The exec bragged about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}