{"id":4721,"date":"2009-05-02T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2009-05-02T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:45:36","slug":"rip-jack-kemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4721","title":{"rendered":"RIP Jack Kemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bills&#8217; quarterback, Congressman, Presidential contender and conservative heavyweight Jack Kemp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iPIEjfIjOPpnL8SxbDfdLORikcFwD97UFU5G4\">has passed away.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kemp had announced in January 2009 that he had been diagnosed with cancer. He said he was undergoing tests but gave no other detail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iop.harvard.edu\/var\/iop_site_user\/storage\/images\/multimedia-center\/all-videos\/a-conversation-with-jack-kemp,-republican-candidate-for-president2\/59407-3-eng-US\/A-Conversation-with-Jack-Kemp,-Republican-Candidate-for-President.png\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kemp was 73.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Kemp was one of the political figures who helped draw me to conservatism. Much more about Jack Kemp on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bills&#8217; quarterback, Congressman, Presidential contender and conservative heavyweight Jack Kemp has passed away. Kemp had announced in January 2009 that he had been diagnosed with cancer. He said he was undergoing tests but gave no other detail. Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}