{"id":1624,"date":"2024-11-12T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/newark-official-wins-special-election-to-fill-late-new-jersey-rep-paynes-seat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T02:40:05","slug":"newark-official-wins-special-election-to-fill-late-new-jersey-rep-paynes-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/newark-official-wins-special-election-to-fill-late-new-jersey-rep-paynes-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Newark official wins special election to fill late New Jersey Rep. Payne&#8217;s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver (D) has won the special election to fill a vacant House seat representing New Jersey&rsquo;s 10th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. McIver defeated Republican Carmen Bucco, a businessman, to serve the remainder of the term for the late Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4887244-newark-city-council-president-wins\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver (D) has won the special election to fill a vacant House seat representing New Jersey&rsquo;s 10th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. McIver defeated Republican Carmen Bucco, a businessman, to serve the remainder of the term for the late Rep&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","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=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}