{"id":74146,"date":"2026-05-28T22:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-history-of-entertainers-running-for-office-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:10:39","slug":"the-history-of-entertainers-running-for-office-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-history-of-entertainers-running-for-office-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of entertainers running for office in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired to run for office after wildfires destroyed his Los Angeles home, Spencer Pratt&#8217;s mayoral candidacy is polarizing voters and providing endless fodder for late night talk shows. But while politics in general might feel like a reality television show these days, Pratt is actually just the latest in a long list of entertainers who court the California electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired to run for office after wildfires destroyed his Los Angeles home, Spencer Pratt&#8217;s mayoral candidacy is polarizing voters and providing endless fodder for late night talk shows. But while politics in general might feel like a reality television show these days, Pratt is actually just the latest in a long list of entertainers who &#8230; <a title=\"The history of entertainers running for office in California\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-history-of-entertainers-running-for-office-in-california\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The history of entertainers running for office in California\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-74146","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\/74146","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}