{"id":63659,"date":"2026-02-17T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/serial-entrepreneur-seeks-district-9-san-jose-council-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:30:12","slug":"serial-entrepreneur-seeks-district-9-san-jose-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/serial-entrepreneur-seeks-district-9-san-jose-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial entrepreneur seeks District 9 San Jose council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serial entrepreneur, classic car collectors, TV host, civic organizer \u2014 lifelong San Jose resident Mike Hennessy has worn a lot of hats over the years. Now, he said that wide-ranging experience has prepared him well to step into yet another role: District 9 councilmember. \u201cI know I can add some common sense,\u201d Hennessy, 70, told San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. \u201cThat\u2019s how I run my business, and I think I\u2019ve done well because of that.\u201d Hennessy is one of four candidates who have filed paperwork to run for the District 9 City Council seat. The incumbent, Vice Mayor Pam Foley, is terming&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/serial-entrepreneur-seeks-district-9-san-jose-council-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial entrepreneur, classic car collectors, TV host, civic organizer \u2014 lifelong San Jose resident Mike Hennessy has worn a lot of hats over the years. Now, he said that wide-ranging experience has prepared him well to step into yet another role: District 9 councilmember. \u201cI know I can add some common sense,\u201d Hennessy, 70, told &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}