{"id":13964,"date":"2025-10-02T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-gets-paid-during-a-government-shutdown-others-have-to-wait\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:21:10","slug":"congress-gets-paid-during-a-government-shutdown-others-have-to-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-gets-paid-during-a-government-shutdown-others-have-to-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress gets paid during a government shutdown, others have to wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress will continue to receive paychecks while the government is shut down, but others won&#8217;t be paid until it&#8217;s over&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5534068-congress-pay-during-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress will continue to receive paychecks while the government is shut down, but others won&#8217;t be paid until it&#8217;s over&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13964","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\/13964","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=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}