{"id":697254,"date":"2010-03-21T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74387"},"modified":"2010-03-21T22:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:35:52","slug":"jim-himes-highlights-fallen-friend-on-the-floor-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697254","title":{"rendered":"Jim Himes highlights fallen friend on the floor of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In making his case for the health care bill, Himes invoked his friend, Greenwich Democratic Town Committee Chairman Dave Roberson, who died in a car accident earlier this month.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Roberson had no health insurance and did not receive regular medical care, according to Himes. &nbsp;He lost control of his car after a meeting; an underlying heart condition may have contributed to the accident.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aNQ2nIOVYPo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In making his case for the health care bill, Himes invoked his friend, Greenwich Democratic Town Committee Chairman Dave Roberson, who died in a car accident earlier this month. &nbsp; Roberson had no health insurance and did not receive regular medical care, according to Himes. &nbsp;He lost control of his car after a meeting; an [&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-697254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vo2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697254","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=697254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}