{"id":97365,"date":"2023-09-01T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=97365"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:45:34","slug":"mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=97365","title":{"rendered":"McConnell incident highlights seniority of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s incident in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had difficulty speaking in a public setting comes at a time of heightened concern about the health and ages of U.S. political leaders. But the Kentucky Republican is not even among the 10 oldest members of the current Congress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2023\/08\/30\/mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s incident in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had difficulty speaking in a public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/97365-mcconnell-incident-highlights-seniority-of-congress-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=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97365","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=97365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}