{"id":673348,"date":"2010-02-23T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77462"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:02:06","slug":"fresh-from-prison-traficant-stages-congressional-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673348","title":{"rendered":"Fresh From Prison, Traficant Stages Congressional Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true. <a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=T000350\">James Traficant<\/a>, the former Ohio congressman-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2002\/04\/11\/traficant.htm\">turned-convicted felon<\/a>, is already garnering national attention for his planned congressional bid. The poufy-haired Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/23\/traficant-will-launch-independent-congressional-bid\/?fbid=5gnOXwjd8Qe\">went on CNN today<\/a> to talk about his 2010 plans, disclosing his desire to run as an independent but failing to indicate exactly where he&#8217;s going to run.<\/p>\n<p>Let the theatrics begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true. James Traficant, the former Ohio congressman-turned-convicted felon, is already garnering national attention for his planned congressional bid. The poufy-haired Democrat went on CNN today to talk about his 2010 plans, disclosing his desire to run as an independent but failing to indicate exactly where he&#8217;s going to run. Let the theatrics begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"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-673348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pas","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673348","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\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}