{"id":191371,"date":"2009-08-28T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/massachusetts-moving-to-accelerate-kennedy-replacement\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T10:45:00","slug":"massachusetts-moving-to-accelerate-kennedy-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/massachusetts-moving-to-accelerate-kennedy-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Moving to Accelerate Kennedy Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, the law was changed to create a replacement by special election, which means that Kennedy&#8217;s seat would be empty for at least 5 months, and now the state legislature is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/27\/us\/politics\/27succeed.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">looking to change the law<\/a> so that an interim appointment can be made before the special election.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably what should have been done in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, the law was changed to create a replacement by special election, which means that Kennedy&#8217;s seat would be empty for at least 5 months, and now the state legislature is looking to change the law so that an interim appointment can be made before the special election. It&#8217;s probably what should have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}