{"id":75850,"date":"2017-11-09T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75850"},"modified":"2017-11-09T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:28:44","slug":"vito-perillo-wwii-vet-wins-mayoral-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75850","title":{"rendered":"Vito Perillo; WWII vet wins mayoral election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75851\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vito-Perillo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"253\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75851\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Andrew sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/news\/local\/elections\/2017\/11\/07\/nj-election-world-war-ii-vet-wins-upset-tinton-falls-mayor\/840720001\/\">a link to the story<\/a> of Vito Perillo who ran for mayor in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>The 93-year-old Navy veteran of the Pacific War against Japan was tired of the current administration of the town and particularly a whistleblower lawsuit against the chief of police that cost the taxpayers more than a million dollars. <\/p>\n<p>Perillo says that he wore out two pairs of shoes going door-to-door to meet voters and it paid off for him. He beat the incumbent mayor, Gerald M. Turning, with 53% to 46% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew sends us a link to the story of Vito Perillo who ran for mayor in &hellip; <a title=\"Vito Perillo; WWII vet wins mayoral election\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75850\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vito Perillo; WWII vet wins mayoral election<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75850","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=75850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}