{"id":13578,"date":"2025-09-22T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tables-turn-for-democrats-as-they-use-shutdown-for-leverage-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:20:52","slug":"tables-turn-for-democrats-as-they-use-shutdown-for-leverage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tables-turn-for-democrats-as-they-use-shutdown-for-leverage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current standoff is a nearly precise inversion of the 2013 showdown over health care that closed government agencies for 17 days&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/democrats-shutdown-leverage-00574029\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current standoff is a nearly precise inversion of the 2013 showdown over health care that closed government agencies for 17 days&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13578","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\/13578","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=13578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}