{"id":11083,"date":"2025-07-08T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jesse-jackson-jr-explores-a-house-comeback-bid-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:21:22","slug":"jesse-jackson-jr-explores-a-house-comeback-bid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jesse-jackson-jr-explores-a-house-comeback-bid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson Jr. explores a House comeback bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is quietly exploring a comeback in Illinois&#8217; 2nd Congressional District after more than a decade out of office &mdash; including a two-year prison term. Jackson &mdash; the son of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and the brother of Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/07\/congress\/jesse-jackson-jr-explores-a-comeback-00441190\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is quietly exploring a comeback in Illinois&#8217; 2nd Congressional District after more than a decade out of office &mdash; including a two-year prison term. Jackson &mdash; the son of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and the brother of Rep&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}