{"id":16567,"date":"2025-12-11T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pardoned-democrat-faces-internal-opposition-as-he-seeks-to-regain-powerful-committee-post\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:21:27","slug":"pardoned-democrat-faces-internal-opposition-as-he-seeks-to-regain-powerful-committee-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pardoned-democrat-faces-internal-opposition-as-he-seeks-to-regain-powerful-committee-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned Democrat faces internal opposition as he seeks to regain powerful committee post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cuellar faces a vote of fellow Democratic appropriators Thursday, and some have doubts&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/henry-cuellar-appropriations-vote-00685842\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cuellar faces a vote of fellow Democratic appropriators Thursday, and some have doubts&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16567","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\/16567","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=16567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}