{"id":13032,"date":"2025-09-09T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/chicago-mayor-calls-national-guard-the-wrong-solution\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:19","slug":"chicago-mayor-calls-national-guard-the-wrong-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/chicago-mayor-calls-national-guard-the-wrong-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago mayor calls National Guard the &#8216;wrong solution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said sending the National Guard to his city is the &ldquo;wrong solution to a real problem&rdquo; in a new opinion piece for The New York Times. &ldquo;Lowering crime rates here does not require an occupation of our city by armed members of the National Guard&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5492954-chicago-mayor-rejects-national-guard\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said sending the National Guard to his city is the &ldquo;wrong solution to a real problem&rdquo; in a new opinion piece for The New York Times. &ldquo;Lowering crime rates here does not require an occupation of our city by armed members of the National Guard&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13032","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\/13032","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=13032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}