{"id":1611,"date":"2010-02-12T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:35:20","slug":"patrick_kennedy_will_not_seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kennedy Will Not Seek Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblog.projo.com\/2010\/02\/-by-john-e-mulligan.html\">Providence Journal<\/a>&nbsp;reports that Patrick Kennedy, the Democrat Senator from Rhode Island, will not seek reelection.&nbsp; In&nbsp;the video message Senator Kennedy released, he alludes <em>not only to his father&#8217;s example of public service but also to that of his aunt, Eunice Shriver. Her creation of the Special Olympics for disabled children gave her more of a private life than elective office allowed to her brothers, Ted, Robert and John F. Kennedy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I probably agree with very little of Senator Kennedy&#8217;s politics, and I am not sorry to see him step down from public office.&nbsp; However, based on his recent personal history, I hope that he will seek help for himself in the areas where he has repeatedly had problems.&nbsp; This is a man who has endured some very difficult moments in his life, and my sympathies go out to him.&nbsp; Possibly the recent death of his father will cause him to reevaluate his life so far and find the things that will truly bring him peace.&nbsp; I wish him the best in whatever he chooses to do in private life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Providence Journal&nbsp;reports that Patrick Kennedy, the Democrat Senator from Rhode Island, will not seek reelection.&nbsp; In&nbsp;the video message Senator Kennedy released, he alludes not only to his father&#8217;s example of public service but also to that of his aunt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}