{"id":198704,"date":"2007-10-17T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/tsongas-wins-special-election-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T10:11:00","slug":"tsongas-wins-special-election-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/tsongas-wins-special-election-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsongas Wins Special Election for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=3739953\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ut was closer than it should have been, a 6% spread in a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">solidly<\/span> Democratic district, largely because Niki Tsongas, Paul&#8217;s widow, ran a lackluster campaign, and she had largely been installed by the local machine in the primary, which left a lot of bad feelings, though there are also a lot of people who had hoped that the Dems would get us out of Iraq by now too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here. Ut was closer than it should have been, a 6% spread in a solidly Democratic district, largely because Niki Tsongas, Paul&#8217;s widow, ran a lackluster campaign, and she had largely been installed by the local machine in the primary, which left a lot of bad feelings, though there are also a lot of people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198704"}],"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=198704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}