{"id":16618,"date":"2025-12-12T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-candidates-running-to-be-the-next-u-s-senator-from-texas-james-talarico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:21:10","slug":"meet-the-candidates-running-to-be-the-next-u-s-senator-from-texas-james-talarico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-candidates-running-to-be-the-next-u-s-senator-from-texas-james-talarico\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates running to be the next U.S. Senator from Texas: James Talarico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. James Talarico started his journey in Texas politics by flipping a seat long-held by Republicans. Now, he&#8217;s trying to do the same to get to D.C&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/5643731-meet-the-candidates-running-to-be-the-next-u-s-senator-from-texas-james-talarico\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. James Talarico started his journey in Texas politics by flipping a seat long-held by Republicans. Now, he&#8217;s trying to do the same to get to D.C&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16618","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\/16618","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=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}