{"id":252179,"date":"2026-04-30T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:20:14","slug":"charlie-crist-runs-for-mayor-of-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252179\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crist Runs for Mayor of St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crist&#8217;s Political BackgroundCrist has a diverse political history, having been a state senator, Florida&#8217;s education commissioner, and attorney general, all while affiliated with the Republican Party. He has run for the U.S. Senate several times, including a notable independent bid against Marco Rubio in 2010. His political journey has also included unsuccessful attempts to become governor in 2014 and 2022 against Republican opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crist&#8217;s Political BackgroundCrist has a diverse political history, having been a state senator, Florida&#8217;s education commissioner, and attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[110069,3347,15397,4833,2346,1375,202,204,203,199,201,200,9622],"class_list":["post-252179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-agency-news","tag-charlie-crist","tag-election-news","tag-florida-politics","tag-ken-welch","tag-mayor","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-times-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}