{"id":13650,"date":"2025-09-24T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/convicted-would-be-trump-assassin-tries-to-stab-himself-with-pen-after-verdict\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:20:40","slug":"convicted-would-be-trump-assassin-tries-to-stab-himself-with-pen-after-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/convicted-would-be-trump-assassin-tries-to-stab-himself-with-pen-after-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted would-be Trump assassin tries to stab himself with pen after verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump while he golfed last year in South Florida tried to stab himself with a pen after a federal jury handed down the guilty verdict Tuesday afternoon. Ryan Routh was convicted on all five counts he faced after jurors deliberated for two hours&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5518263-trump-attempted-assassination-verdict\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump while he golfed last year in South Florida tried to stab himself with a pen after a federal jury handed down the guilty verdict Tuesday afternoon. Ryan Routh was convicted on all five counts he faced after jurors deliberated for two hours&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13650","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\/13650","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=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}