{"id":13092,"date":"2017-03-25T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T02:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:50:05","slug":"louisville-mayor-to-seek-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/louisville-mayor-to-seek-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Mayor To Seek Re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/louisville-mayor-to-seek-re-election\/greg-fischer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Greg-Fischer.jpg?fit=175%2C125&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"175,125\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Greg Fischer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Greg-Fischer.jpg?fit=175%2C125&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Greg-Fischer.jpg?resize=175%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13093\" \/><br \/>\nDemocrat Greg Fischer says he will seek a third term as Louisville&#8217;s mayor in 2018.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fischer said Friday his administration has accomplished &#8220;great things&#8221; for Kentucky&#8217;s largest city, but said there&#8217;s more work to do.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer, a 59-year-old businessman, was first elected mayor in 2010 in a tight race against Republican Hal Heiner. He was re-elected with little opposition in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor has touted the roughly $9 billion in construction projects underway or in the pipeline across the city, much of it downtown.<\/p>\n<p>But he has faced increasing scrutiny over an increase in violent crime, which resulted in a record-breaking number of gunshot and homicide victims in the city last year. Louisville police investigated 118 murders and around 500 shootings last year.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Greg Fischer says he will seek a third term as Louisville&#8217;s mayor in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-3pa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 04:15:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13094,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}