{"id":52543,"date":"2022-09-20T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52543"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:34:12","slug":"these-women-could-make-history-in-novembers-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52543","title":{"rendered":"These women could make history in November\u2019s midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of female candidates could make history in gubernatorial, House and Senate races this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Voters will have the opportunity to elect some of the first openly lesbian women for governor, perhaps the first Gen Z female candidate to Congress and some of the first Black women for governor and Congress in their states, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those firsts demonstrate the diversifying candidacies that could play a key role in shaping American politics while also serving as a stark reminder of the continued barriers that women face in achieving higher office, particularly when it comes to race, sexuality, age and other aspects of identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of female candidates could&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52544,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52543\/revisions\/52544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}