{"id":209,"date":"2015-06-11T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/06\/11\/speed-bumps-win-mayoral-election\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:39:00","slug":"speed-bumps-win-mayoral-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/speed-bumps-win-mayoral-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Bumps Win Mayoral Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria Virginia&#8217;s long time mayor was unseated by the only city official, Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg (D),\u00a0to respond to an outdry after a Halloween\u00a0hit and run left a 7 year old hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The city official worked to get speed bumps installed on the busy street, and checked in with the family of the vicitim.<\/p>\n<p>Speed bumps and the personal touch won her the election to defeat a long standing incumbent, a former mayor, and a third candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/how-alexandrias-longtime-mayor-was-upset-by-a-relative-newcomer\/2015\/06\/10\/c14475ac-0f87-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html?wpisrc=nl_daily202&amp;wpmm=1\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria Virginia&#8217;s long time mayor was unseated by the only city official, Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg (D),\u00a0to respond to an outdry after a Halloween\u00a0hit and run left a 7 year old hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The city official worked to get speed bumps installed on the busy street, and checked in with the family of the vicitim.<\/p>\n<p>Speed bumps and the personal touch won her the election to defeat a long standing incumbent, a former mayor, and a third candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}