{"id":1611,"date":"2011-03-27T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2011-03-27T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:18:16","slug":"geraldine-ferraro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/geraldine-ferraro\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldine Ferraro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #333233} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #333233; min-height: 12.0px} --><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1612\" title=\"ferraro\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8352-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8352-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8352-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8352-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8352-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Geraldine Ferraro, the first female Vice Presidential candidate, died at age 75 on March 26, 2011. She died after a 12 year battle with multiple myeloma. Geraldine Ferraro broke political ground when she ran for the Democratic VP ticket with Walter Mondale in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Ferraro was also the first woman in her family to complete college. She went on to become a grade school teacher, while going to school nights to get a law degree. She eventually became the Assistant DA in Queens County, NY specializing in child abuse and domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>She was also a member of the US House of Representatives. Ferraro also made a run for a senate seat from New York once in 1992 and again in 1998, losing both times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geraldine Ferraro, the first female Vice Presidential candidate, died at age 75 on March 26, 2011. She died after a 12 year battle with multiple myeloma. Geraldine Ferraro broke political ground when she ran for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[839,895,896],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-death","tag-geraldine-ferraro","tag-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}