{"id":509,"date":"2007-12-04T00:25:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2007-12-04T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:25:38","slug":"cooper-to-give-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Cooper to give it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Jerry Cooper, tried and acquitted on federal fraud charges, convicted of drunk driving (in a spectacular accident that he was fortunate to survive), and fined a staggering $12,000 by the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance &#8212; an agency formed by a bill that he himself sponsored &#8212; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2007\/dec\/03\/state-sen-cooper-retire-appeal-civil-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced that he will retire<\/a> prior to the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise, surprise.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the last few years have seen substantial housecleaning in Nashville, but I suspect there&#8217;s more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Jerry Cooper, tried and acquitted on federal fraud charges, convicted of drunk driving (in a spectacular accident that he was fortunate to survive), and fined a staggering $12,000 by the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance &#8212; an agency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}