{"id":171119,"date":"2025-08-24T23:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=171119"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:15:31","slug":"michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=171119","title":{"rendered":"Michael Castle, former Delaware governor and congressman, dies at age 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Michael N. Castle, a fixture in Delaware politics for a half-century who previously served as governor and a member of Congress, died Thursday at age 86. \u201cDuring his time as governor, Mike Castle visited every single school in our state, including mine, where he spoke to my high school class with the same warmth&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2025\/08\/15\/michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Michael N. Castle, a fixture in Delaware politics for a half-century who previously served<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86.jpg",1620,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86.jpg",1620,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171119-michael-castle-former-delaware-governor-and-congressman-dies-at-age-86-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}