{"id":29580,"date":"2025-01-02T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/barbara-lee-heads-for-house-exit-after-nearly-three-decades-as-trailblazer\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:28:55","slug":"barbara-lee-heads-for-house-exit-after-nearly-three-decades-as-trailblazer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/barbara-lee-heads-for-house-exit-after-nearly-three-decades-as-trailblazer\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Lee heads for House exit after nearly three decades as trailblazer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat, 78, who won election to Congress in 1998, departs after storied career with long list of firsts<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee has always stood apart, a matter-of-fact renegade with a long list of firsts.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, she was the first Black student to integrate her southern California cheerleading squad. During her more than two decades in Congress, she has been the only Black woman elected to the US House from California\u2019s regions north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/02\/barbara-lee-democrat-house-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat, 78, who won election to Congress in 1998, departs after storied career with long list of firsts The Democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee has always stood apart, a matter-of-fact renegade with a long list of firsts. In high school, she was the first Black student to integrate her southern California cheerleading squad. During her more &#8230; <a title=\"Barbara Lee heads for House exit after nearly three decades as trailblazer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/barbara-lee-heads-for-house-exit-after-nearly-three-decades-as-trailblazer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Barbara Lee heads for House exit after nearly three decades as trailblazer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}