{"id":731705,"date":"2010-05-23T22:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78580"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:15:19","slug":"breaking-news-blumenthal-says-hes-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/731705","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Blumenthal says he&#8217;s sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        E-mail statement from attorney general and Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse;\">&#8220;At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves,&#8221; Blumenthal says via email tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse;\">&#8220;I have firmly and clearly expressed regret and taken responsibility for my words. I have made mistakes and I am sorry. I truly regret offending anyone.&nbsp; I will always champion the cause of Connecticut&#8217;s and our nation&#8217;s veterans.&#8221;<br \/><\/span> <\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail statement from attorney general and Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal: &#8220;At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves,&#8221; Blumenthal says via email tonight. &#8220;I have firmly and clearly expressed regret and taken responsibility [&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-731705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34lH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731705","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=731705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}