{"id":4825,"date":"2018-01-31T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:24:08","slug":"macarthur-was-on-train-that-crashed-is-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/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=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/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=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/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\" \/><\/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>\u201cOn the way to the annual GOP retreat, the train that my colleagues and I were traveling on was involved in an accident,\u201d he said via social media. \u201cI am ok and am thankful for the first responders for their quick action. My prayers are with those who were injured in this accident.\u201d<\/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\/lavallette-seaside\/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. \u201cOn the way to the annual GOP retreat, the train that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ocean-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GOP-train-crash.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}