{"id":419829,"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.media\/index\/419829","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":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419829","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}