{"id":1862,"date":"2015-10-02T03:48:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2015-10-02T03:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:48:35","slug":"ray-lahood-visits-bradley-to-promote-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/2015\/10\/02\/ray-lahood-visits-bradley-to-promote-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray LaHood Visits Bradley to Promote Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/10\/Ray-LaHood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1863 colorbox-1862\" src=\"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/10\/Ray-LaHood-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ray LaHood\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/10\/Ray-LaHood-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/10\/Ray-LaHood-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/10\/Ray-LaHood.jpg 1423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The honorable Bradley alum Ray LaHood, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, spoke about his memoir, \u201cSeeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics\u201d on October 1 at 7pm in the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center at Bradley University.<\/p>\n<p>His memoir provides a personal perspective from the alumnus who served both in Congress and in President Obama&#8217;s Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>LaHood spent 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives after being elected in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Within his first term in Congress, he was named a &#8220;Freshman to Watch&#8221; by Congressional Quarterly, a highly-respected publication on politics and news. President Obama also described LaHood as an &#8220;outstanding public servant&#8221; when he appointed him the 16th Secretary of Transportation in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>This event featuring Ray LaHood was sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Bradley.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great opportunity for students to learn from someone who was once sitting in the same position they are, just many years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honorable Bradley alum Ray LaHood, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, spoke about his memoir, \u201cSeeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics\u201d on October 1 at 7pm in the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center at Bradley University.<br \/>\nHis memoir provides a personal perspective from the alumnus who served both in Congress and in President Obama&#8217;s Cabinet.<br \/>\nLaHood spent 14 years [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}