{"id":18698,"date":"2018-10-16T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18698"},"modified":"2018-10-16T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:25:52","slug":"running-to-be-first-female-native-american-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18698","title":{"rendered":"Running to be first female Native American in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"69\">\n<p>The upcoming US midterm elections will feature a large number of female first-time candidates, including Deb Haaland, who is seeking to become the first female Native American ever elected to the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland&#8217;s supporters say that she will bring a unique voice to Congress if she wins the election.<\/p>\n<p>Native Americans are running for office in greater numbers around the country, with over 100 Native candidates competing for various offices this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rob Reynolds reports from New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming US midterm elections will feature a large number of female first-time candidates, including Deb Haaland, who is seeking to become the first female Native American ever elected to the US Congress. Haaland&#8217;s supporters say that she will bring a unique voice to Congress if she wins the election. Native Americans are running for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}