{"id":13241,"date":"2025-09-14T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-charlie-kirks-killing-sends-a-chill-through-congress-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:20:27","slug":"capitol-agenda-charlie-kirks-killing-sends-a-chill-through-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-charlie-kirks-killing-sends-a-chill-through-congress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing sends a chill through Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Charlie Kirk is hitting lawmakers hard. Some, like Speaker Mike Johnson, were close with the conservative activist. For many others, his death in Utah is fresh evidence of a chilling escalation in political violence and the latest shocking reminder of their own exposure to attacks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/11\/congress\/charlie-kirk-mike-johnson-lawmaker-safety-political-violence-00557065\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Charlie Kirk is hitting lawmakers hard. Some, like Speaker Mike Johnson, were close with the conservative activist. For many others, his death in Utah is fresh evidence of a chilling escalation in political violence and the latest shocking reminder of their own exposure to attacks&#8230;Read More<\/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-13241","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\/13241","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=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}