{"id":688044,"date":"2010-03-10T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78962"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:52:42","slug":"primarying-mike-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/688044","title":{"rendered":"Primarying Mike Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christine O&#8217;Donnell, a longtime conservative activist who took on the thankless task of challenging Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) in 2008, is <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/03\/10\/castle-gets-primary-challenge-in-delaware\/?fbid=XbKAgA9wIv1\">running against<\/a> Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) for the GOP&#8217;s Senate nomination. Castle is almost sure to win, O&#8217;Donnell almost sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34041.html\">join the ranks of Tea Party candidates who fell flat<\/a>, but this demonstrates two things &#8212; the conservative movement&#8217;s annoyance with being told to settle for some moderate candidates, and the hunger of GOP candidates to try and find some office to run for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine O&#8217;Donnell, a longtime conservative activist who took on the thankless task of challenging Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) in 2008, is running against Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) for the GOP&#8217;s Senate nomination. Castle is almost sure to win, O&#8217;Donnell almost sure to join the ranks of Tea Party candidates who fell flat, but this demonstrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"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-688044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SZu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688044","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\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}