{"id":916,"date":"2017-06-06T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-06-06T23:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:58:19","slug":"maruca-defeats-gop-primary-challenger-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/06\/maruca-defeats-gop-primary-challenger-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Maruca Defeats GOP Primary Challenger Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_862\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-862\" class=\"size-large wp-image-862\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-1024x465.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Lamb and Maria Maruca (Campaign Photos)\" width=\"640\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-1024x465.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-925x420.jpg 925w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-640x291.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca-681x309.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Lamb and Maria Maruca (Campaign Photos)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maria Maruca will vie for another term on the Toms River Township council after winning a hard-fought Republican primary battle with political newcomer Justin Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>Lamb garnered 35 percent of the vote \u2013 impressive for a candidate who did not have party support \u2013 but 59 percent of GOP voters chose Maruca, the incumbent. Maruca won by about 400 votes \u2013 she received 920 compared to Lamb\u2019s 550.<\/p>\n<p>Maruca will face Anthony L. Colucci, a Democrat, in the general election, Colucci was unopposed in his bid to represent his party in November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/06\/maruca-defeats-gop-primary-challenger-lamb\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Maruca will vie for another term on the Toms River Township council after winning a hard-fought Republican primary battle with political newcomer Justin Lamb. Lamb garnered 35 percent of the vote \u2013 impressive for a candidate who did not have party support \u2013 but 59 percent of GOP voters chose Maruca, the incumbent. Maruca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[349,335,336,350,11],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-gop","tag-justin-lamb","tag-maria-maruca","tag-republican-party","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lamb_maruca.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}