{"id":891836,"date":"2026-02-12T04:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/lawmakers-spend-big-on-home-state-science-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:12:02","slug":"lawmakers-spend-big-on-home-state-science-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/lawmakers-spend-big-on-home-state-science-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers spend big on home state science projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, king of congressional earmarks, steers $165 million to his alma maters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/lawmakers-spend-big-home-state-science-projects\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Thomas Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, king of congressional earmarks, steers $165 million to his alma maters&#8230;Read MoreThomas Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4151,536,4192],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-891836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lawmakers","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-spend"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}