{"id":103,"date":"2009-03-31T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-03-31T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:28:51","slug":"principles-politics-and-leadership-the-risks-and-rewards-of-staying-true-and-speaking-honestly-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/03\/31\/principles-politics-and-leadership-the-risks-and-rewards-of-staying-true-and-speaking-honestly-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Principles, Politics and Leadership: The risks and rewards of staying true and speaking honestly in Washington&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/events\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/shays_headshot1.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Shays\" width=\"160\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Shays<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you would like to get insight into one of Connecticut&#8217;s most successful and controversial congressmen, join us for a discussion with former U.S. Representative Christopher Shays on <strong>Tuesday, April 7 at 5:00pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Represenative Shays spent 21 years in congress as a moderate Republican, often clashing with his own party on his social views. His entire career is a story of how politicians can successfully stay true to themselves and their issues.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to get insight into one of Connecticut&#8217;s most successful and controversial congressmen, join us for a discussion with former U.S. Representative Christopher Shays on Tuesday, April 7 at 5:00pm. Represenative Shays spent 21 years in congress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/03\/31\/principles-politics-and-leadership-the-risks-and-rewards-of-staying-true-and-speaking-honestly-in-washington\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}