{"id":173,"date":"2008-10-24T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/24\/republican-adk-seasonal-gov-bill-weld-backs-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:11:00","slug":"republican-adk-seasonal-gov-bill-weld-backs-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/24\/republican-adk-seasonal-gov-bill-weld-backs-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican, Adk seasonal Gov. Bill Weld backs Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld, who has a seasonal home in the Adirondacks, is crossing over to support Democrat Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican &#8212; who ran unsuccessfully for Governor of NY two years ago, losing in the GOP primary &#8212; issued this statement today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Senator Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America&#8217;s standing in the world.  We need a president who will lead based on our common values and Senator Obama demonstrates an ability to unite and inspire. Throughout this campaign I&#8217;ve watched his steady leadership through trying times and I&#8217;m confident he is the best candidate to move our country forward.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld, who has a seasonal home in the Adirondacks, is crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}