{"id":1004,"date":"2005-02-04T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2005-02-04T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T00:01:37","slug":"feingold_2008_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Feingold 2008?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Gilbert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/feb05\/298859.asp\">chats<\/a> with 3 term US Senator Russ Feingold on his Presidential ambitions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to be one of God knows how many Democrats who are going to get out there and try to help turn this thing around,&#8221; said Feingold, the third-term senator from Wisconsin who has sent a variety of signals that he would like to raise his national profile. He spent three days last week making appearances in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If at some point people say, &#8216;Hey, we think you ought to run for president&#8217; (and) it&#8217;s a serious thing, I&#8217;m going to listen. I would only run if I honestly believed that I was the guy that really could win, that I was the person who was the best candidate to run,&#8221; said Feingold, who sat down Wednesday at a reporter&#8217;s request to talk about the Democratic Party and the 2008 presidential contest. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Gilbert chats with 3 term US Senator Russ Feingold on his Presidential ambitions: &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to be one of God knows how many Democrats who are going to get out there and try to help turn this thing around,&#8221; said Feingold, the third-term senator from Wisconsin who has sent a variety of signals that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}