{"id":553,"date":"2006-06-22T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/22\/promises_promis\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:35:00","slug":"promises_promis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/22\/promises_promis\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises, Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/21\/AR2006062101791.html\">Northern Virginia Democrats<\/a>, meanwhile, are trying to take advantage of the momentum attributed by many to a demographic shift in Fairfax and Loudoun, where increasingly urbanizing neighborhoods have leaned Democratic in recent elections.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are underway to draft state and local candidates, Northern Virginia Democrats say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Republican in Northern Virginia can expect vigorous competition,&#8221; said Gerald E. Connolly (D), chairman of the Fairfax Board of Supervisors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vigorous, as in waving of hands and beating of breasts?  Let\u2019s see if the Dems can really draft some top-notch candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Virginia Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to take advantage of the momentum attributed by many to a demographic shift in Fairfax and Loudoun, where increasingly urbanizing neighborhoods have leaned Democratic in recent elections. Efforts are underway to draft state and local candidates, Northern Virginia Democrats say. &#8220;Every Republican in Northern Virginia can expect vigorous competition,&#8221;&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/22\/promises_promis\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}