{"id":12668,"date":"2025-08-28T04:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/national-guard-in-dc-now-picking-up-trash-working-on-beautification\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:21:55","slug":"national-guard-in-dc-now-picking-up-trash-working-on-beautification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/national-guard-in-dc-now-picking-up-trash-working-on-beautification\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard in DC now picking up trash, working on &#8216;beautification&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., are picking up trash and working on the &ldquo;beautification&rdquo; of the nation&rsquo;s capital as part of President Trump&rsquo;s federalization of the city&rsquo;s law enforcement to crack down on crime.  Over the weekend, the D.C. National Guard shared a video of troops hauling garbage bags and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5474272-troops-clean-up-washington\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., are picking up trash and working on the &ldquo;beautification&rdquo; of the nation&rsquo;s capital as part of President Trump&rsquo;s federalization of the city&rsquo;s law enforcement to crack down on crime. Over the weekend, the D.C. National Guard shared a video of troops hauling garbage bags and&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12668","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\/12668","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=12668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}