{"id":4284,"date":"2024-12-31T13:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-new-the-members-back-to-washington-nearly-30-years-later-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:20:44","slug":"meet-new-the-members-back-to-washington-nearly-30-years-later-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-new-the-members-back-to-washington-nearly-30-years-later-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet new the members: Back to Washington \u2014 nearly 30 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Cleo Fields (D-La.) How they got here: Fields won his return to Congress after defeating Republican Elbert Guillory and Democrat Quentin Anderson. He notched nearly 51 percent of the vote. Inside the campaign: The race for the seat began in earnest when Republican Gov&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/30\/congress\/meet-the-new-members-00196125\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Cleo Fields (D-La.) How they got here: Fields won his return to Congress after defeating Republican Elbert Guillory and Democrat Quentin Anderson. He notched nearly 51 percent of the vote. Inside the campaign: The race for the seat began in earnest when Republican Gov&#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-4284","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\/4284","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=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}