{"id":275,"date":"2009-04-17T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:40","slug":"ethan-hastert-officially-exploring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Hastert officially &#8220;exploring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laesch had it first, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=287391\">the Daily Herald<\/a> is now reporting that Ethan Hastert is exploring a run in IL-14.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely.  We can now look forward to a run by a guy whose two greatest claims to fame are:<br \/>\na.) being the son of the Speaker-from-hell who presided over the gutting of the checks and balances that we should expect from the People&#8217;s House in order to serve instead as the Cheerleader in Chief for a criminal administration<br \/>\nb.) working for the only person, Scooter Libby, actually convicted from that administration<\/p>\n<p>Just charming.  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (already)<br \/>\nAndre Salles at the Beacon has it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanchicagonews.com\/beaconnews\/news\/1532034,hastert-son-au041709.article\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laesch had it first, but the Daily Herald is now reporting that Ethan Hastert is exploring a run in IL-14. Lovely. We can now look forward to a run by a guy whose two greatest claims to fame are: a.) being the son of the Speaker-from-hell who presided over the gutting of the checks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[105,15,7,104,9,2869,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}