{"id":47184,"date":"2014-12-03T17:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page-tim_scott_takes_historic_oath_puts_limit_on_serving\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:20:48","slug":"local_paper_front_page-tim_scott_takes_historic_oath_puts_limit_on_serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47184","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper front page&#8211;Tim Scott takes historic oath, puts limit on serving in U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tim Scott&#8217;s oath of office Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate took on a historic significance &#8211; the swearing in of the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>That was followed later by Scott&#8217;s revelation that he didn&#8217;t plan to make the Senate a lifelong career.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, R-S.C., who was elected in November to finish out the final two years of former Sen. Jim DeMint&#8217;s term, told reporters from his home state during a conference call that he hopes to be re-elected to two, full six-year terms and then plans to leave Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20141202\/PC1603\/141209903\/1031\/tim-scott-takes-historic-oath-puts-limit-on-serving-in-us-senate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Scott&#8217;s oath of office Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate took on a historic significance &#8211; the swearing in of the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. That was followed later by Scott&#8217;s revelation that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47184\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,133,151,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}