{"id":689567,"date":"2010-03-12T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79077"},"modified":"2010-03-12T08:51:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:51:50","slug":"republicans-pick-first-time-candidate-for-murtha-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689567","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Pick First-Time Candidate for Murtha Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a nearly 2-1 margin, Republican conferees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune-democrat.com\/local\/local_story_071000335.html?keyword=topstory\">chose first-time candidate<\/a> and small businessman Tim Burns to run in the May 18 special election for the seat formerly held by John Murtha. Democrats earlier this week selected their nominee &#8212; Mark Critz, Murtha&#8217;s former district director &#8212; and like Republicans they face an awkward situation as the candidate Critz defeated plans to run for the full term as a candidate in the regularly scheduled primary. But the Republicans, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77615\/race-to-succeed-murtha-divides-republicans\">having stiffed 2008 candidate Bill Russell<\/a>, have a little more angst ahead of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a nearly 2-1 margin, Republican conferees chose first-time candidate and small businessman Tim Burns to run in the May 18 special election for the seat formerly held by John Murtha. Democrats earlier this week selected their nominee &#8212; Mark Critz, Murtha&#8217;s former district director &#8212; and like Republicans they face an awkward situation as [&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-689567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2To3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689567","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=689567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}