{"id":17844,"date":"2012-11-05T16:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17844"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:23:36","slug":"newark-mayor-cory-booker-invites-sandy-victims-to-his-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17844","title":{"rendered":"Newark Mayor Cory Booker Invites Sandy Victims To His House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, NJ &#8212; Newark mayor <strong>Cory Booker <\/strong>has won widespread praise in the past of his hands on efforts with his cities residents. When it comes to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, he\u2019s burnished his reputation even further, by offering up his home to victims of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Sandy hit the state of New Jersey head-on when it made landfall on Monday, decimating the Jersey shoreline and knocking out power to over a million people.<\/p>\n<p>In the storm\u2019s aftermath, the Newark mayor has been tweeting non-stop, offering updates on power outages, calming frazzled constituents and checking up on those in need.<\/p>\n<p>And now he\u2019s inviting neighbors without power to seek refuge at his house.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, talks with Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker during groundbreaking ceremonies for the Teachers Village development in downtown Newark, N.J. A New Jersey Democratic county chairman says Booker has told him he\u2019s considering running for governor against Chris Christie in 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, NJ &#8212; Newark mayor Cory Booker has won widespread praise in the past of his hands on efforts with his cities residents. When it comes to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, he\u2019s burnished his reputation even further, by offering up his home to victims of the storm. Hurricane Sandy hit the state of New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}