{"id":75775,"date":"2017-11-04T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75775"},"modified":"2017-11-04T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T22:30:38","slug":"rand-paul-assaulted-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75775","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul assaulted at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/358782-rand-paul-assaulted-at-kentucky-home-police#.Wf4c7MVdoik.twitter\">The Hill<\/a> reports that Republican Senator Rand Paul was assaulted at his Bowling Green, Kentucky home yesterday by his neighbor, 59-year-old Rene Boucher;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault,&#8221; Kelsey Cooper, a spokeswoman for Paul, said in a statement. &#8220;The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police. Senator Paul is fine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/11\/04\/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-in-kentucky-home.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Boucher is a registered Democrat and that some posts on his Facebook page were of the anti-Trump variety.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A&#8230;neighbor told local news station WNKY said that the Senator was mowing his lawn around 3 p.m. on Friday when Boucher assaulted him. The neighbor also confirmed that the two share a corner adjacent to their homes and have been embroiled in an ongoing feud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a Rand Paul fan because of his support for IVAW&#8217;s Adam Kokesh when Kokesh was running for Congress in New Mexico, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that Paul deserves to be assaulted by anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill reports that Republican Senator Rand Paul was assaulted at his Bowling Green, Kentucky home &hellip; <a title=\"Rand Paul assaulted at home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75775\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rand Paul assaulted at home<\/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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75775","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=75775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}