{"id":13044,"date":"2025-09-09T06:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/video-footage-sheds-more-light-on-burchetts-tussle-with-protester-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:40","slug":"video-footage-sheds-more-light-on-burchetts-tussle-with-protester-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/video-footage-sheds-more-light-on-burchetts-tussle-with-protester-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Video footage sheds more light on Burchett&#8217;s tussle with protester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New video footage shows there was more to the skirmish last week between a protester and Rep. Tim Burchett, which ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man.  Burchett characterized the encounter at the time as a heated verbal exchange that grew physical when the demonstrator got in the lawmaker&rsquo;s face and &ldquo;bumped&rdquo; him&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/08\/congress\/burchett-calls-protestor-a-weenie-00551473\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New video footage shows there was more to the skirmish last week between a protester and Rep. Tim Burchett, which ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man. Burchett characterized the encounter at the time as a heated verbal exchange that grew physical when the demonstrator got in the lawmaker&rsquo;s face and &ldquo;bumped&rdquo; him&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044","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=13044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}