{"id":669682,"date":"2010-02-19T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77092"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:24:03","slug":"lautenberg-has-stomach-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669682","title":{"rendered":"Lautenberg Has Stomach Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news: Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) has been diagnosed with stomach cancer and will begin chemotherapy today.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old is the second-oldest sitting U.S. senator &#8212; behind the ailing Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) &#8212; and was first elected to the Senate in 1982.<span id=\"more-77092\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/us_sen_frank_lautenberg_is_dia.html\">The Star-Ledger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Democrat still plans to finish out his current term \u2013 his fifth in the Senate \u2013 and seek re-election in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t change any of that,\u201d Lautenberg\u2019s chief aide, Dan Katz, said of the senator\u2019s political plans. \u201cAfter he receives his treatment, back to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news: Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) has been diagnosed with stomach cancer and will begin chemotherapy today. The 86-year-old is the second-oldest sitting U.S. senator &#8212; behind the ailing Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) &#8212; and was first elected to the Senate in 1982. From The Star-Ledger: The Democrat still plans to finish out his current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-669682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Odk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669682","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\/3552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}