{"id":116488,"date":"2019-10-28T02:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/28\/katie-hill-rising-democratic-star-resigns-amid-claims-of-relationship-with-staffer\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T02:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:27:20","slug":"katie-hill-rising-democratic-star-resigns-amid-claims-of-relationship-with-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=116488","title":{"rendered":"Katie Hill, rising Democratic star, resigns amid claims of relationship with staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman blames estranged husband and \u2018hateful political operatives\u2019 for smear campaign against her California congresswoman Katie Hill, a freshman Democrat and a rising star in the party, announced her resignation on Sunday amid allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a member of her congressional staff.\u201cIt is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress,\u201d Hill, 32, wrote in a resignation letter. \u201cThis is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/oct\/28\/katie-hill-rising-democratic-star-resigns-amid-claims-of-relationship-with-staffer\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Hill, rising Democratic star, resigns amid claims of relationship with staffer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman blames estranged husband and \u2018hateful political operatives\u2019 for smear campaign against her California congresswoman Katie Hill, a freshman Democrat and a rising star in the party, announced her resignation on Sunday amid allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a member of her congressional staff.\u201cIt is with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}