{"id":17081,"date":"2025-12-24T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/these-3-republican-senators-are-giving-john-thune-headaches-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:20:30","slug":"these-3-republican-senators-are-giving-john-thune-headaches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/these-3-republican-senators-are-giving-john-thune-headaches-2\/","title":{"rendered":"These 3 Republican senators are giving John Thune headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran hard-liners have new perches of authority and rising influence among Republican senators&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/23\/senate-gop-conservatives-lee-johnson-scott-00703034\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran hard-liners have new perches of authority and rising influence among Republican senators&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17081","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\/17081","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=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}