{"id":34535,"date":"2013-11-01T04:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T04:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34535"},"modified":"2013-11-01T04:22:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T04:22:33","slug":"booker-sworn-in-as-u-s-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34535","title":{"rendered":"Booker Sworn In as U.S. Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/01\/nyregion\/booker-is-sworn-in-as-united-states-senator.html\" target=\"_blank\">Booker Sworn In as U.S. Senator<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Steinhauer<\/strong>, Congressional Reporter<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cory_Booker\" target=\"_blank\">Cory A. Booker<\/a>, who gained celebrity as a danger-dodging, super-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting<\/a> mayor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newark,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Newark<\/a>, was sworn in as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey\u2019s<\/a> junior United States senator on Thursday, the first African-American to be elected to the chamber since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> in 2004&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kp6mCTh9cxE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/01\/nyregion\/booker-is-sworn-in-as-united-states-senator.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booker Sworn In as U.S. Senator The New York Times 2013-10-31 Jennifer Steinhauer, Congressional Reporter WASHINGTON \u2014 Cory A. Booker, who gained celebrity as a danger-dodging, super-tweeting mayor of Newark, was sworn in as New Jersey\u2019s junior United States senator on Thursday, the first African-American to be elected to the chamber since Barack Obama in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[16163,13346,16273,5366,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-34535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-cory-a-booker","tag-cory-booker","tag-jennifer-steinhauer","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}