{"id":790,"date":"2015-11-04T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/?p=790"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:03:02","slug":"this-time-would-be-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/this-time-would-be-different\/","title":{"rendered":"This Time Would Be Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/108313154?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Fleck represented the State&#8217;s 81st District in rural Pennsylvania. He was first elected in 2006, then ran unopposed for re-election in 2008, &#8217;10 and &#8217;12.<br \/>\nBut as he says, he knew &#8220;This time would be different&#8221;.<br \/>\nIn December 2012, a month after Fleck&#8217;s election to a fourth term, he came out as gay.<br \/>\nLocal Republican Richard Irvin would later announce he would run against Fleck in 2014. Irvin was removed from the primary ballot on a technicality\u00a0but still defeated Fleck as a write-in candidate on the Republican ticket, while Fleck defeated Irvin on the empty Democratic ticket as a write-in.<br \/>\nIn November 2014&#8217;s general election, the incumbent gay Republican running as a Democrat faced off against his Republican challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Fleck represented the State&#8217;s 81st District in rural Pennsylvania. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-28","category-video","category-work-multimedia","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FleckThumbnail1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willyurman.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}