{"id":49800,"date":"2014-12-09T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=49800"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:51:02","slug":"william-tong-will-lead-legislatures-judiciary-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=49800","title":{"rendered":"William Tong will lead legislature&#8217;s judiciary committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stamford Democrat State Rep. William Tong was awarded the chairmanship of the state Legislature&#8217;s judiciary committee last week, taking over from another Stamford Democrat, Rep. Gerald Fox III, who stepped down from the legislature to run for the city&#8217;s Probate Court judgeship, which he won unopposed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tong , 41, a corporate attorney at the Stamford-based law firm Finn Dixon &#038; Herling, represents Stamford&#8217;s 147th District in North Stamford. A historically Republican district, won his fifth term in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stamford Democrat State Rep. William Tong was awarded the chairmanship of the state Legislature&#8217;s judiciary committee last week, taking over from another Stamford Democrat, Rep. Gerald Fox III, who stepped down from the legislature to run for the city&#8217;s Probate Court judgeship, which he won unopposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49801,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49800\/revisions\/49801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}