{"id":44417,"date":"2020-01-17T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=44417"},"modified":"2020-01-17T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:59:00","slug":"role-model-representative-ayanna-pressley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/role-model-representative-ayanna-pressley\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Model: Representative Ayanna Pressley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley is a groundbreaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/pressley.house.gov\/about\">She&#8217;s the first woman of color to represent Massachusetts in Congress.<\/a> Her election &#8212; which occurred during the &#8220;Blue Wave&#8221; of November 2018 that flipped the House to a Democratic majority &#8212; came nine years after she was voted in as the first woman of color to serve on the Boston City Council.<\/p>\n<p>This week, she revealed a different kind of remarkable story to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Root<\/a>. I urge you to watch the video till the end.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAR5yuD7s-s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley is a groundbreaker: She&#8217;s the first woman of color to represent Massachusetts in Congress. Her election &#8212; which occurred during the &#8220;Blue Wave&#8221; of November 2018 that flipped the House to a Democratic majority &#8212; came nine years after she was voted in as the first woman of color to serve on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/role-model-representative-ayanna-pressley\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,49,558,143,1409],"tags":[1634],"class_list":{"0":"post-44417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hair","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"category-news","9":"category-politics","10":"category-racism-in-the-news","11":"tag-ayanna-pressley","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44420,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44417\/revisions\/44420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}