{"id":1388,"date":"2023-04-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paragoninstitute.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/brian-blase-washingtonian-500-most-influential-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:20:00","slug":"brian-blase-washingtonian-500-most-influential-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/paragoninstitute.org\/news\/brian-blase-washingtonian-500-most-influential-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washingtonian Recognizes Brian Blase as One of Washington DC\u2019s 500 Most Influential People of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>On April 27, 2023, <em>Washingtonian<\/em> recognized Paragon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/paragoninstitute.org\/profile\/brian-blase\/\">Brian Blase<\/a> was named one of Washington DC\u2019s 500 Most Influential People of 2023.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Blase joined a coalition of groups at the end of 2022 to urge Congress not to raise Medicare spending in its year-end budget allocation, asserting that doing so could make inflation worse, all while starting a congressional education program that consists of monthly briefings with Paragon experts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Dallas, Pennsylvania. <strong>First job:<\/strong> Burger King cook. <strong>Best career advice:<\/strong> \u201cBecome an expert in something and not just a generalist.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2023\/04\/27\/washington-dcs-500-most-influential-people-of-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The full article can be found in <em>Washingtonian<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":513,"template":"","tags":[955,374],"external-media-outlet":[],"location":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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