{"id":12777,"date":"2025-08-31T01:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-rehabilitates-thoughts-and-prayers-after-minneapolis-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:45","slug":"gop-rehabilitates-thoughts-and-prayers-after-minneapolis-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-rehabilitates-thoughts-and-prayers-after-minneapolis-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP rehabilitates &#8216;thoughts and prayers&#8217; after Minneapolis shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP politicians backed by conservative media figures are seeking to turn the tables on &ldquo;thoughts and prayers&rdquo; after mass shootings, arguing that dismissing prayer minimizes the importance and comfort many find in religious faith at times of tragedy and crisis.  The idea of offering &ldquo;thoughts and prayers&rdquo; after a mass shooting has been a point&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5477870-democrats-criticize-gop-prayer-response\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP politicians backed by conservative media figures are seeking to turn the tables on &ldquo;thoughts and prayers&rdquo; after mass shootings, arguing that dismissing prayer minimizes the importance and comfort many find in religious faith at times of tragedy and crisis. The idea of offering &ldquo;thoughts and prayers&rdquo; after a mass shooting has been a point&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12777","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\/12777","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=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}