{"id":11038,"date":"2025-07-07T07:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/obama-texas-flash-flooding-absolutely-heartbreaking\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:20:54","slug":"obama-texas-flash-flooding-absolutely-heartbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/obama-texas-flash-flooding-absolutely-heartbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Texas flash flooding &#8216;absolutely heartbreaking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President&nbsp;Obama said in a statement on Sunday that he was praying for those affected by the flash flooding in Texas over the past few days. &#8220;The flash flooding in Central Texas is absolutely heartbreaking. Michelle and I are praying for everyone who has lost a loved one or is waiting for news &mdash; especially&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5387120-former-presidents-obama-bush-extend-floods-support\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President&nbsp;Obama said in a statement on Sunday that he was praying for those affected by the flash flooding in Texas over the past few days. &#8220;The flash flooding in Central Texas is absolutely heartbreaking. Michelle and I are praying for everyone who has lost a loved one or is waiting for news &mdash; especially&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11038","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\/11038","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=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}