{"id":1718,"date":"2008-08-01T21:57:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2008-08-01T21:57:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:57:23","slug":"kevorkian-to-hold-first-town-hall-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/08\/01\/kevorkian-to-hold-first-town-hall-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"KEVORKIAN TO HOLD FIRST TOWN HALL MEETING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Livingston Daily<br \/>\nJuly 31 2008<br \/>\nMI<\/p>\n<p>Congressional candidate Jack Kevorkian, who gained fame in the 1990s<br \/>\nafter being convicted of second-degree murder for his role in an<br \/>\nassisted suicide, will hold his first town hall meeting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevorkian is running as an independent in the 9th Congressional<br \/>\nDistrict against U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Bloomfield Township, and<br \/>\nDemocrat Gary Peters, a former state senator and lottery commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. at the Birmingham Community<br \/>\nHouse, 380 South Bates in Birmingham, Kevorkian will discuss his<br \/>\nphilosophy on foreign and domestic affairs, the economy and what he<br \/>\nplans to do if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Kevorkian, who served more than eight years in prison before his<br \/>\nrelease last June, admitted to participating in more than 130 assisted<br \/>\nsuicides during the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livingston Daily July 31 2008 MI Congressional candidate Jack Kevorkian, who gained fame in the 1990s after being convicted of second-degree murder for his role in an assisted suicide, will hold his first town hall meeting Friday. Kevorkian is running as an independent in the 9th Congressional District against U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Bloomfield Township, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}