{"id":7151,"date":"2026-04-01T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/congressman-jared-moskowitz-plays-timekeeper-at-his-sons-basketball-game-amid-federal-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:45:29","slug":"congressman-jared-moskowitz-plays-timekeeper-at-his-sons-basketball-game-amid-federal-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/congressman-jared-moskowitz-plays-timekeeper-at-his-sons-basketball-game-amid-federal-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Jared Moskowitz Plays Timekeeper at His Son\u2019s Basketball Game Amid Federal Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the federal government shut down in early 2023, the nation\u2019s attention turned to the plight of thousands of federal employees who suddenly found themselves without paychecks, benefits, or a clear timeline for when normal operations would resume. Amid the chaos, some members of Congress found themselves in unexpected, and sometimes humorous, roles outside the Capitol. One such story involves Representative Jared Moskowitz of Florida, who stepped onto the sidelines of a high\u2011stakes youth basketball game as a timekeeper and scoreboard operator, all while the nation waited for a resolution to the shutdown.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-congressman-on-the-court-jared-moskowitzs-unexpected-role\">A Congressman on the Court: Jared Moskowitz\u2019s Unexpected Role<\/h2>\n<p>On a sunny Tuesday afternoon at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Florida,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the federal government shut down in early 2023, the nation\u2019s attention turned to the plight of thousands of federal employees who suddenly found themselves without paychecks, benefits, or a clear timeline for when normal operations would resume. Amid the chaos, some members of Congress found&#8230;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}