{"id":9885,"date":"2018-09-04T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9885"},"modified":"2018-09-05T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:39:29","slug":"ayanna-pressley-wins-massachusetts-primary-to-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9885","title":{"rendered":"Ayanna Pressley wins Massachusetts primary to House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Ayanna Pressley is set to become the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress in Massachusetts, following a primary upset.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Boston city councillor beat House veteran Michael Capuano to secure the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<p>She will not face a Republican opponent in November&#8217;s mid-term election.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a series of victories for progressive, young and minority candidates representing the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>2018 has also seen a historic amount of female candidates run for Democratic nominations.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech after her win, Ms Pressley said: &#8220;Change is coming and the future belongs to all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayanna Pressley is set to become&#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-9885","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\/9885","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=9885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9886,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions\/9886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}