{"id":15738,"date":"2025-11-16T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/in-a-congress-full-of-millionaires-raising-money-becomes-the-job\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:20:38","slug":"in-a-congress-full-of-millionaires-raising-money-becomes-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/in-a-congress-full-of-millionaires-raising-money-becomes-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Congress full of millionaires, raising money becomes the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This system is preventing some candidates from running while also driving others out of office once they&rsquo;re elected&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5606526-campaign-finance-reform-needed\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This system is preventing some candidates from running while also driving others out of office once they&rsquo;re elected&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15738","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\/15738","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=15738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}