{"id":728216,"date":"2010-05-17T22:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T02:49:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:36:13","slug":"blumenthal-will-hold-a-press-conference-tomorrow-calls-times-piece-an-outrageous-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/728216","title":{"rendered":"Blumenthal will hold a press conference tomorrow; calls Times piece an &#8220;outrageous&#8221; distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, 'Sans Serif', Arial; font-size: 11px; \"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><font size=\"4\"><span style=\"color: black; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">&#8220;The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal&#8217;s record of service,&#8221; his campaign manager Mindy Myers said in an email tonight. &#8220;Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, SC and six years in the reserves. &nbsp;He received no special treatment from anyone.&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_im\"><font size=\"4\"><span style=\"color: black; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">&#8220;Dick has a long record of standing up for veterans. &nbsp;Tomorrow, &nbsp;veterans will be standing up with Dick.&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal&#8217;s record of service,&#8221; his campaign manager Mindy Myers said in an email tonight. &#8220;Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, SC and six years in the reserves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-728216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728216","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=728216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829708,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728216\/revisions\/829708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}