{"id":673828,"date":"2010-02-23T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310f3258fe970c"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T03:30:32","slug":"southwest-side-lawmaker-to-monitor-iraq-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673828","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Side lawmaker to monitor Iraq elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Ray Long<\/em> at 9:30 p.m. <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD &#8212; A state lawmaker from Chicago is headed to Iraq to monitor critical elections on March 7 as one of nine elected women from across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Susana Mendoza, 37, is part of a mission in conjunction with the National Foundation for Women Legislators and the U.S. Department of State to travel to Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>The Southwest Side lawmaker is working to move her legislation through Illinois House committees this week before the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza plans to return to Springfield in time for Gov. Pat Quinn&#8217;s budget presentation March 10, which she says &quot;may remind me a little bit of Baghdad.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Ray Long at 9:30 p.m. SPRINGFIELD &#8212; A state lawmaker from Chicago is headed to Iraq to monitor critical elections on March 7 as one of nine elected women from across the United States. Rep. Susana Mendoza, 37, is part of a mission in conjunction with the National Foundation for Women Legislators and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"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-673828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673828","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\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}