{"id":35935,"date":"2013-06-03T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35935"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:16:28","slug":"lautenberg-senates-last-wwii-vet-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35935","title":{"rendered":"Lautenberg, Senate&#8217;s last WWII vet passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lautenberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lautenberg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lautenberg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lautenberg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lautenberg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what you think about his politics, or the circumstances that brought him out of retirement and back to the Senate, Frank Lautenberg&#8217;s passing marks the end of an era when nearly every member of the Senate had served in the military. Lautenberg served during World War II in the Signal Corps from 1942 to 1946. After the war, he attended Columbia University on his GI Bill, like the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/3\/sen-frank-lautenberg-dies-89-new-jersey-democrat-w\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, his replacement will be named by Republican New Jersey Governor Christie. For some reason everyone thinks that Christie will name a Republican, but I wouldn&#8217;t put any money on it given Christie&#8217;s recent behavior.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attention of the political world now turns to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who is responsible for naming an interim replacement to serve of the remainder of Mr. Lautenberg\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Christie is likely to tap a fellow Republican, cutting into the 55 seat majority that Democrats hold in the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regardless, the world has changed with Lautenberg&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what you think about his politics, or the circumstances that brought him out of &hellip; <a title=\"Lautenberg, Senate&#8217;s last WWII vet passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35935\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lautenberg, Senate&#8217;s last WWII vet passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}