{"id":16095,"date":"2025-11-29T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/a-peacekeeper-capito-honors-memory-of-sarah-beckstrom-after-national-guard-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:21:09","slug":"a-peacekeeper-capito-honors-memory-of-sarah-beckstrom-after-national-guard-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/a-peacekeeper-capito-honors-memory-of-sarah-beckstrom-after-national-guard-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A peacekeeper&#8217;: Capito honors memory of Sarah Beckstrom after National Guard shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) &#8211; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) says that U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was a &ldquo;peacekeeper&rdquo; who showed courage and honor as she served the nation. Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard, died Thursday at the age of 20. &nbsp;She was one of two guard members ambushed in what&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5625885-sarah-beckstrom-honored-capito\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) &#8211; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) says that U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was a &ldquo;peacekeeper&rdquo; who showed courage and honor as she served the nation. Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard, died Thursday at the age of 20. &nbsp;She was one of two guard members ambushed in what&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16095","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\/16095","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=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}