{"id":7066,"date":"2014-01-02T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2014-01-02T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:23:03","slug":"indiana-u-s-rep-luke-messer-91-looks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/01\/02\/indiana-u-s-rep-luke-messer-91-looks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana U.S. Rep. Luke Messer \u201991 looks back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/01\/Luke-Messer-photo-from-AP.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7068\" style=\"width: 145px;height: 113px\" title=\"Luke Messer photo from AP\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/01\/Luke-Messer-photo-from-AP-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/01\/Luke-Messer-photo-from-AP-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/01\/Luke-Messer-photo-from-AP.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Rep. Luke Messer \u201991<\/strong> had a busy first year as the Indiana Republican congressman representing the southern half of eastern Indiana:<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span>elected president of the GOP freshmen class, got two bills through the House, and was part of the first government shutdown in 17 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/2013\/12\/20\/indiana-us-rep-luke-messer-looks-back-on-first-year-in-congress\/4253521\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Times New Roman\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> to read an interview with Luke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Photo courtesy of AP.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Luke Messer \u201991 had a busy first year as the Indiana Republican congressman representing the southern half of eastern Indiana:\u00a0 elected president of the GOP freshmen class, got two bills through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}