{"id":15195,"date":"2025-11-03T22:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-throws-gatsby-themed-gala-as-snap-benefits-expire\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:20:23","slug":"trump-throws-gatsby-themed-gala-as-snap-benefits-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-throws-gatsby-themed-gala-as-snap-benefits-expire\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump throws &#8216;Gatsby&#8217;-themed gala as SNAP benefits expire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone had a good Halloween.&nbsp;The&nbsp;president certainly did &mdash; he spent his weekend throwing a Great Gatsby&ndash;themed party at Mar-a-Lago.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, &ldquo;The Great Gatsby,&rdquo; for those who might&rsquo;ve missed the symbolism in high-school English, is a story about excess, illusion and the moral decay behind wealth&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/lindseys-lens\/5586799-trump-gatsby-party-snap-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone had a good Halloween.&nbsp;The&nbsp;president certainly did &mdash; he spent his weekend throwing a Great Gatsby&ndash;themed party at Mar-a-Lago.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, &ldquo;The Great Gatsby,&rdquo; for those who might&rsquo;ve missed the symbolism in high-school English, is a story about excess, illusion and the moral decay behind wealth&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15195","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\/15195","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=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}