{"id":209655,"date":"2026-02-08T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209655"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:24:12","slug":"on-this-day-feb-7-u-s-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209655","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 7: U.S. Rep. Wright is 1st member of Congress to die of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 7, 2021, Rep. Ron Wright of Texas died of COVID-19, becoming the first member of Congress to succumb to the disease&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/2026\/02\/07\/On-This-Day-US-Rep-Wright-is-1st-member-of-Congress-to-die-of-COVID-19\/1491770437257\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 7, 2021, Rep. Ron Wright of Texas died of COVID-19, becoming the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19-300x251.jpg",300,251,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209655-on-this-day-feb-7-us-rep-wright-is-1st-member-of-congress-to-die-of-covid-19.jpg",400,334,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209655","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=209655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}