{"id":9694,"date":"2025-05-27T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/northern-virginia-rep-gerry-connolly-dies-at-75\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:21:29","slug":"northern-virginia-rep-gerry-connolly-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/northern-virginia-rep-gerry-connolly-dies-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Democrat fought on behalf of the many government workers in his district&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/21\/gerry-connolly-obituary-virginia-congress-oversight-00326209\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Democrat fought on behalf of the many government workers in his district&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9694","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\/9694","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=9694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}