{"id":788,"date":"2009-05-03T06:42:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T06:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2009-05-03T06:42:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T06:42:53","slug":"we_have_lost_a_good_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"We Have Lost A Good Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/home\/story\/659250.html\">The Buffalo News<\/a>, Jack Kemp, 73, former Congressman, former Vice-Presidential candidate, and former Buffalo Bills quarterback, died Saturday.&nbsp; It was announced in January the Mr. Kemp had cancer, but no details were given.&nbsp; He served nine terms as a Congressman from western New York.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As head of&nbsp;the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, he supported programs to fight homelessness and deal with urban blight.&nbsp; He supported enterprise zones to help develop areas of major cities that had decayed.&nbsp; Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and Jeane Kirkpatrick&nbsp;co-founded Empower America, a public policy organization intended to promote economic growth, job creation and entrepreneurship, in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Kemp was a man who believed in giving everyone a chance to prosper.&nbsp; He believed in the &#8216;American Dream&#8217; of being free to achieve success without being overtaxed or overregulated by an out-of-control government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Buffalo News, Jack Kemp, 73, former Congressman, former Vice-Presidential candidate, and former Buffalo Bills quarterback, died Saturday.&nbsp; It was announced in January the Mr. Kemp had cancer, but no details were given.&nbsp; He served nine terms as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=788\">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-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}