{"id":146321,"date":"2025-04-30T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146321"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:53:40","slug":"va-gov-asks-gay-gop-nominee-to-quit-race-nominee-says-victim-of-fabricated-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146321","title":{"rendered":"VA Gov Asks Gay GOP Nominee to Quit Race, Nominee Says Victim of Fabricated Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/04\/25\/youngkin-john-reid-candidate-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday asked John Reid, the Republican nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor, to drop out of the race over nude photos of men posted to a social media account that the governor\u2019s team says is linked to the candidate but Reid says was fabricated to smear him for being openly gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday asked John Reid, the Republican nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor, to drop out of the race over nude photos of men posted to a social media account that the governor\u2019s team says is linked to the candidate but Reid says was fabricated to smear him for being openly gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146322,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146321\/revisions\/146322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}