{"id":48835,"date":"2018-07-24T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=48835"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:37:17","slug":"ocasio-cortezs-joke-catches-mulgrews-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/07\/ocasio-cortezs-joke-catches-mulgrews-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Joke Catches Mulgrew&#8217;s Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong>, the Democrat who surprised everyone by beating<strong> Rep. Joseph Crowley<\/strong> in a double-digit victory last month, is a fan of <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> and <strong>Kate Mulgrew.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While joking around with a poster on <em>Twitter<\/em>, Ocasio-Cortez told that poster that &#8220;My identity has been exposed. 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