{"id":12177,"date":"2018-01-31T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:22:03","slug":"macarthur-was-on-train-that-crashed-is-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/01\/macarthur-was-on-train-that-crashed-is-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"MacArthur Was On Train That Crashed, Is OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12178\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12178\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The scene of a train crash involving U.S. representatives. (Credit: @rachaelmbade\/ Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash-681x383.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene of a train crash involving U.S. representatives. (Credit: @rachaelmbade\/ Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-3), who represents most of Ocean County in the House of Representatives, was on board the train that crashed into a truck Wednesday, leaving one person dead.<\/p>\n<p>MacArthur confirmed he was on the train but said he was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the way to the annual GOP retreat, the train that my colleagues and I were traveling on was involved in an accident,&#8221; he said via social media. &#8220;I am ok and am thankful for the first responders for their quick action. My prayers are with those who were injured in this accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Amtrak train was carrying a number of federal legislators, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, to a retreat in West Virginia. The retreat will go on as planned, officials said, and both the vice president and President Donald Trump are scheduled to address attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred near Charlottesville, Va., after leaving Union Station in Washington, D.C. earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/01\/macarthur-was-on-train-that-crashed-is-ok\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-3), who represents most of Ocean County in the House of Representatives, was on board the train that crashed into a truck Wednesday, leaving one person dead. MacArthur confirmed he was on the train but said he was not injured. &#8220;On the way to the annual GOP retreat, the train that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3202,24,3203,3204,277,3201,3200],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-amtrak","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-congress","tag-republican-retreat","tag-tom-macarthur","tag-train-accident","tag-train-crash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}