{"id":1244,"date":"2005-12-10T23:01:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2005-12-10T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T05:02:08","slug":"former-sen-eugene-mccarthy-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/12\/10\/mccarthy.obit.ap.ap\/index.html\">1916-2005<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy was an atypical politician, a former college professor with a witty, erudite speaking style. His surprising 1968 presidential campaign turned him into a spokesman for a generation angry about the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, 89, died in his sleep Saturday at an assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he had lived for the past few years, said his son, Michael.<\/p>\n<p>A Minnesota Democrat, McCarthy challenged President Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1968 Democratic nomination during growing debate over Vietnam, leading to Johnson&#8217;s withdrawal from the race and forcing the Democratic Party to take McCarthy&#8217;s antiwar message seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator, who ran for president five times, wrote poetry in his spare time and was the author of several books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m sure he meant well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1916-2005 Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy was an atypical politician, a former college professor with a witty, erudite speaking style. His surprising 1968 presidential campaign turned him into a spokesman for a generation angry about the war in Vietnam. McCarthy, 89, died in his sleep Saturday at an assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}