{"id":10968,"date":"2025-07-04T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cargo-thieves-are-plundering-america-blind-congress-must-act\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:21:52","slug":"cargo-thieves-are-plundering-america-blind-congress-must-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cargo-thieves-are-plundering-america-blind-congress-must-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo thieves are plundering America blind \u2014 Congress must act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo theft is a growing epidemic in the US, with criminal rings exploiting weaknesses in digital infrastructure and low enforcement, and Congress must act to pass the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act to address the crisis&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/congress-blog\/5384239-cargo-theft-epidemic-threats-economy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo theft is a growing epidemic in the US, with criminal rings exploiting weaknesses in digital infrastructure and low enforcement, and Congress must act to pass the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act to address the crisis&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}