{"id":1375865,"date":"2023-12-06T21:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=f208e1020afe156b8fc9d66172a57844"},"modified":"2023-12-06T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:21:26","slug":"ousted-former-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-announces-hes-retiring-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/06\/ousted-former-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-announces-hes-retiring-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Announces He\u2019s Retiring From Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican member of the House of Representatives who served as speaker of the House from the start of the year until he was removed from the position in early October, has announced that he will not seek reelection and will depart from Congress entirely at the end of December. &ldquo;I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/ousted-former-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-announces-hes-retiring-from-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/ousted-former-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-announces-hes-retiring-from-congress\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCarthy&#8217;s departure means his congressional seat will remain vacant for at least four months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3545,71893,7260,6177,4,9961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375866,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375865\/revisions\/1375866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}