{"id":217404,"date":"2010-01-21T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70069"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:31:41","slug":"former-presidential-candidate-john-edwards-finally-admits-fathering-child-long-running-denials-are-now-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217404","title":{"rendered":"Former Presidential Candidate John Edwards Finally Admits Fathering Child; Long-Running Denials Are Now Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his heyday, former U.S. Senator John Edwards was a leading candidate to become the Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>He had support all over the country, including when he came to Hartford and stood with Democratic politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Edwards has finally admitted that he fathered a child with a videographer who worked on his campaign and had wide access on the campaign plane. Edwards had made many denials through the years and harshly dismissed the original articles as&nbsp;irresponsible, shoddy journalism&nbsp;&#8211; but they now have&nbsp;been proven to be true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/breaking\/sns-ap-us-edwards-daughter,0,5574514.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/breaking\/sns-ap-us-edwards-daughter,0,5574514.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his heyday, former U.S. Senator John Edwards was a leading candidate to become the Democratic presidential nominee. He had support all over the country, including when he came to Hartford and stood with Democratic politicians. Now, Edwards has finally admitted that he fathered a child with a videographer who worked on his campaign and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}