{"id":3915,"date":"2018-11-28T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2018-11-28T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T12:37:25","slug":"a-truckload-of-watermelons-five-omgs-from-john-lawrences-the-class-of-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/a-truckload-of-watermelons-five-omgs-from-john-lawrences-the-class-of-74\/","title":{"rendered":"A truckload of watermelons: Five OMG\u2019s from John Lawrence\u2019s \u201cThe Class of \u201874\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3916\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/a-truckload-of-watermelons-five-omgs-from-john-lawrences-the-class-of-74\/lawrence-class-of-74\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"384,321\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lawrence Class of 74\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74-300x251.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3916\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74.jpg 384w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lawrence-Class-of-74-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>John Lawrence has some tales to tell. He served nearly four decades in the House, culminating as the chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi during her stint as speaker from 2007-2011.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence\u2019s book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2P4TKV5\">The Class of \u201874: Congress After Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship<\/a>\u00a0(Johns Hopkins), was released earlier this year, and is a heady, political history book. Lawrence shows how the 1974 election of 93 new members \u201476 Democrats and 17 Republicans\u2014 helped disrupt the status quo of the House&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legbranch.org\/a-truckload-of-watermelons-five-omgs-from-john-lawrences-the-class-of-74\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lawrence has some tales to tell. He served nearly four decades in the House, culminating as the chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi during her stint as speaker from 2007-2011. Lawrence\u2019s book,\u00a0The Class of \u201874: Congress After Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship\u00a0(Johns Hopkins), was released earlier this year, and is a heady, political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-legbranch-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-119","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}