{"id":51393,"date":"2014-08-04T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51393"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:04:22","slug":"reagan-press-secretary-james-brady-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51393","title":{"rendered":"Reagan Press Secretary James Brady, Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bradyjames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51394\" alt=\"bradyjames\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bradyjames-266x300.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bradyjames-266x300.jpg 266w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bradyjames-155x175.jpg 155w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bradyjames.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2013 A man who became known for his crusade for gun control \u2014 after being seriously wounded in a presidential assassination attempt \u2014 has died. His family is announcing the death of former White House press secretary James Brady at the age of 73. He was wounded in 1981 by the gunman who also wounded then-President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington hotel. A federal law requiring a background check on handgun buyers carries his name.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WASHINGTON (AP) \u2013 The head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says because of James Brady\u2019s work on gun control, \u201ccountless lives have been saved.\u201d Dan Gross says with Brady\u2019s help, \u201can estimated 2 million gun sales to criminals, domestic abusers and other dangerous people have been blocked.\u201d At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest is remembering Brady as someone who \u201crevolutionized\u201d the job of press secretary \u2014 and who later showed his \u201cpatriotism\u201d by being \u201cvery outspoken on an issue that was important to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2013 A man who became known for his crusade for gun control \u2014 after being seriously wounded in a presidential assassination attempt \u2014 has died. His family is announcing the death of former White House press secretary James Brady at the age of 73. He was wounded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51396,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393\/revisions\/51396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}