{"id":6942,"date":"2018-04-11T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T02:57:21","slug":"paul-ryan-not-seeking-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=6942","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan not seeking re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">House Speaker Paul Ryan will retire from Congress and his powerful role as speaker is a stunning development for Republicans who looked to him as one of their top institutional leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">He&#8217;s one of the few politicians who seems able to maneuver institutional Washington without completely alienating the party&#8217;s base. And despite his protestations that it does not, his decision must have something to do with the anticipated Republican clobbering this fall.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The ramifications of Ryan&#8217;s departure are going to be widespread. From the fight to replace his individual seat to the fight to fill his role as speaker, Ryan won&#8217;t exactly be a captain going down with the ship.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Paul Ryan will retire&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","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\/6942","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=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}