{"id":213608,"date":"2026-03-08T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213608"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:14:55","slug":"after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213608","title":{"rendered":"After Two Wars and PTSD, He Became an Oyster Farmer. Why is He Running for Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPolitics is not actually for special people.\u201d&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/podcasts\/death-sex-money\/2026\/03\/senate-candidate-graham-platner-maine-anti-war-veteran-nazi-tattoo-controversy?via=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPolitics is not actually for special people.\u201d&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate.jpeg",1560,1040,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-1536x1024.jpeg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate.jpeg",1560,1040,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213608-after-two-wars-and-ptsd-he-became-an-oyster-farmer-why-is-he-running-for-senate-590x410.jpeg",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\/213608","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=213608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}