{"id":7333,"date":"2006-05-05T15:29:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7333.html"},"modified":"2006-05-05T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T19:29:34","slug":"patrick-kennedy-to-go-to-rehab-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/patrick-kennedy-to-go-to-rehab-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kennedy to go to rehab clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a nice, slow Friday afternoon. The director of the CIA resigns under suspicious circumstances, my server goes down for the second Friday in a row, and Rep. [tag]Patrick Kennedy[\/tag] (D-R.I.) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12634639\/\">checking himself into a [tag]rehab[\/tag]ilitation [tag]clinic[\/tag]<\/a> for addiction to prescription pain medication.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tag]Kennedy[\/tag], who has struggled with [tag]addiction[\/tag] and depression, said he had checked into the Mayo Clinic over the Christmas holidays and returned to Congress &#8220;reinvigorated and healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, in every recovery, each day has its ups and downs, but I have been strong, focused and productive since my return,&#8221; Kennedy said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&#8217;s announcement came after he was cited for three traffic violations in an early morning car crash near the Capitol, according to a police report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kennedy will go to the [tag]Mayo Clinic[\/tag] in Rochester, Minn. this evening. It&#8217;s unclear what this means for his House seat or his re-election campaign, should he choose to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a nice, slow Friday afternoon. The director of the CIA resigns under suspicious circumstances, my server goes down for the second Friday in a row, and Rep. [tag]Patrick Kennedy[\/tag] (D-R.I.) is checking himself into a [tag]rehab[\/tag]ilitation [tag]clinic[\/tag] for addiction to prescription pain medication. [tag]Kennedy[\/tag], who has struggled with [tag]addiction[\/tag] and depression, said he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}