{"id":42515,"date":"2014-02-10T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shns_terry_mattingly_there_are_old_dark_secrets_hiding_in_the_modern_pews\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:00:13","slug":"shns_terry_mattingly_there_are_old_dark_secrets_hiding_in_the_modern_pews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42515","title":{"rendered":"(SHNS) Terry Mattingly: There are old dark secrets hiding in the modern pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point before 35-year-old Jesse Ryan Loskarn hanged himself in his parents\u2019 home outside Baltimore, he wrote a painful letter soaked in shame and self-loathing in which he attempted to explain the unexplainable.<\/p>\n<p>The former chief of staff for Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) had lived a secret life, hiding memories of child abuse and his addiction to child pornography. Even as U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents used a battering ram to enter his house, it appeared that he was trying to hide an external hard drive &#8211; containing hundreds of videos &#8211; on a ledge outside a window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone wants to know why,\u201d\u009d he wrote, in a Jan. 23 letter posted online by Gay Loskarn, his mother.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebanondemocrat.com\/article\/guest-view\/333736\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point before 35-year-old Jesse Ryan Loskarn hanged himself in his parents\u2019 home outside Baltimore, he wrote a painful letter soaked in shame and self-loathing in which he attempted to explain the unexplainable. The former chief of staff for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42515\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,101,168,114,177,116,129,95,603,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-pornography","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-suicide","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}