{"id":629283,"date":"2010-01-13T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/13\/ford-keeps-talking-senate-bid\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:40:12","slug":"ford-keeps-talking-senate-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/629283","title":{"rendered":"Ford Keeps Talking Senate Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/muZMgTYiUXY\/ford_keeps_talking_senate_bid.html\" >Ford Keeps Talking Senate Bid             <\/a><br \/>In an interview with the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/13\/nyregion\/13ford.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\">New York Times<\/a>, Harold Ford Jr. offered &#8220;a glimpse into a possible campaign strategy&#8221; saying &#8220;he would run as an insurgent who is uncontrolled by the entrenched political class&#8221; that he says has rallied around Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). <\/p>\n<p>  Said Ford: &#8220;If I am elected senator from New York, Harry Reid will not instruct me how to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Some interesting items: Ford only rides the subway when he can&#8217;t catch a taxi in the winter, he &#8220;has breakfast most mornings at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, and he receives regular pedicures. (He described them as treatment for a foot condition.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also says he remains a hunter, saying with a smile, &#8220;I shoot at things that can&#8217;t shoot back and will continue to do that.&#8221;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/muZMgTYiUXY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Keeps Talking Senate Bid In an interview with the New York Times, Harold Ford Jr. offered &#8220;a glimpse into a possible campaign strategy&#8221; saying &#8220;he would run as an insurgent who is uncontrolled by the entrenched political class&#8221; that he says has rallied around Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). Said Ford: &#8220;If I am elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DHJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}