{"id":39534,"date":"2025-08-04T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/former-tennessee-coach-derek-dooley-announces-2026-senate-bid-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:01:01","slug":"former-tennessee-coach-derek-dooley-announces-2026-senate-bid-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/former-tennessee-coach-derek-dooley-announces-2026-senate-bid-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Coach Derek Dooley Announces 2026 Senate Bid in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oa55hzmguYo?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A former college football coach is stepping into politics, launching a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Backed by a sitting governor, the coach joins a competitive Republican primary field with several candidates already in the race. The winner will go on to challenge the current Democratic senator in a high-stakes general election. This unexpected move has sparked conversations across both political and sports communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former college football coach is stepping into politics, launching a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Backed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}