{"id":181321,"date":"2018-09-13T01:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=181321"},"modified":"2018-09-13T01:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:41:39","slug":"kavanaugh-didnt-recognize-parkland-dad-seeking-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/13\/kavanaugh-didnt-recognize-parkland-dad-seeking-handshake\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh: I didn&#8217;t recognize Parkland dad seeking handshake"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_173665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173665\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brett-Kavanaugh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173665\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brett-Kavanaugh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brett-Kavanaugh.jpg 465w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brett-Kavanaugh-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee he assumed the man who approached him was a protester. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/home.nsf\/content\/vl+-+judges+-+bmk\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\">United States Court of Appeals<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he would have shaken the hand of a man whose daughter was killed in a Florida high school shooting if he had known who the man was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A photo of Kavanaugh appearing to refuse to shake Fred Guttenberg&#8217;s outstretched hand last week went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee he assumed the man who approached him was a protester. He says if he had known who Guttenberg was, &#8220;I would have shaken his hand, talked to him, and expressed my sympathy. And I would have listened to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kavanagh&#8217;s explanation was part of a 263-page response late Wednesday to some 1,287 written questions from senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to meet Thursday to consider Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he would have shaken the hand of a man whose daughter was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":173665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-lisa-mascaro","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}