{"id":16627,"date":"2017-11-28T03:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=16627"},"modified":"2017-12-07T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:59:10","slug":"fired-kentucky-state-worker-sent-personal-mails-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/fired-kentucky-state-worker-sent-personal-mails-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Kentucky State Worker Sent Personal Mails To Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16628\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/fired-kentucky-state-worker-sent-personal-mails-to-women\/winston-bennett\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Winston-Bennett.jpg?fit=500%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,481\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Winston Bennett\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Winston-Bennett.jpg?fit=500%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Winston-Bennett.jpg?resize=300%2C289\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Winston-Bennett.jpg?resize=300%2C289&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Winston-Bennett.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA former University of Kentucky basketball player was fired from his job in the Labor Cabinet last month after sending personal emails to women on his government computer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Courier Journal obtained the emails under the Kentucky Open Records Act. The newspaper said in one email, Winston Bennett told a cabinet employee she was &#8220;Too hot to trot.&#8221; Bennett was given no reason for his firing as director of the Labor Cabinet&#8217;s Division of Apprenticeship.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary Derrick Ramsey&#8217;s chief of staff, J. Brooken Smith, said no written complaints were filed with the cabinet but that when a potential issue surfaced, Bennett was terminated.<\/p>\n<p>Seven women who work in the cabinet declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former University of Kentucky basketball player was fired from his job in the Labor Cabinet last month after sending personal emails to women on his government computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-4kb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 15:47:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16629,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}