{"id":115192,"date":"2017-01-25T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115192"},"modified":"2017-01-25T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:00:01","slug":"carl-edwards-u-s-senate-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115192","title":{"rendered":"Carl Edwards U.S. Senate run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/EdwardsCarl3-1-e1484169649564.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-114395\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/EdwardsCarl3-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"edwardscarl3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Carl Edwards remains a hot topic in NASCAR, two weeks after his abrupt retirement as a full-time driver.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Smith, a political science professor at Columbia College, speculated in a Wednesday piece for KBIA&#8217;s Talking Politics that Edwards will challenge U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri nextyear. McCaskill, a Democrat, is in her second term.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards didn&#8217;t exactly rule it out when reached by The Associated Press. He texted: &#8220;If I could help, I definitely would consider it,&#8221; though he stressed he has no such plans for now.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Edwards has also not ruled out a return to racing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Carl Edwards remains a hot topic in NASCAR, two weeks after his abrupt retirement as a full-time driver. Terry Smith, a political science professor at Columbia College, speculated in a Wednesday piece for KBIA&#8217;s Talking Politics that Edwards will challenge U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115203,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115192\/revisions\/115203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}