{"id":643622,"date":"2010-01-26T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70441"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:41:50","slug":"former-u-s-rep-chris-shays-for-governor-sold-his-bridgeport-home-and-moved-out-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/643622","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays For Governor? Sold His Bridgeport Home and Moved Out Of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some politicos have been urging former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays to run for governor &#8211; saying there is a vacuum in the race because the two former frontrunners,&nbsp;Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, have decided not to run.<\/p>\n<p>The first problem is that Shays sold his upscale home in Bridgeport &#8211; previously owned by People&#8217;s Bank executive David Carson &#8211; and is now working in the Washington, D.C. area. The home, which is one of the best in Bridgeport, sold for $1.55 million in a down market.<\/p>\n<p>Our colleague, Rick Green, has details at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/rick_green\/2010\/01\/shays-yawn-says-its-yawn-unlik.html\">http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/rick_green\/2010\/01\/shays-yawn-says-its-yawn-unlik.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some politicos have been urging former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays to run for governor &#8211; saying there is a vacuum in the race because the two former frontrunners,&nbsp;Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, have decided not to run. The first problem is that Shays sold his upscale home in Bridgeport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"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-643622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Hr0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643622","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\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}