{"id":681027,"date":"2010-03-03T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72884"},"modified":"2010-03-03T00:36:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:36:51","slug":"where-was-vince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681027","title":{"rendered":"Where was Vince?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first debate of a political campaign marks a big moment in any candidate&#8217;s career and not surprisingly,&nbsp;most candidates want their spouses with them. On Monday night, Richard Blumenthal and Merrick Alpert each&nbsp;acknowledged their wives in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Rob Simmons brought his wife and two children and Peter Schiff&nbsp;was accompanied by&nbsp;his fiancee. <\/p>\n<p>Linda McMahon came with her two children, Shane and Stephanie. &#8220;My husband is in Wichita tonight producing television, so he was watching on the internet feed,&#8221; McMahon said,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first debate of a political campaign marks a big moment in any candidate&#8217;s career and not surprisingly,&nbsp;most candidates want their spouses with them. On Monday night, Richard Blumenthal and Merrick Alpert each&nbsp;acknowledged their wives in the audience. Tonight, Rob Simmons brought his wife and two children and Peter Schiff&nbsp;was accompanied by&nbsp;his fiancee. Linda McMahon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"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-681027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Raj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681027","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\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}