{"id":17243,"date":"2025-12-31T22:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-minnesota-republican-gop-caucus-steered-youtuber-nick-shirley-to-day-care-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:20:25","slug":"top-minnesota-republican-gop-caucus-steered-youtuber-nick-shirley-to-day-care-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-minnesota-republican-gop-caucus-steered-youtuber-nick-shirley-to-day-care-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Minnesota Republican: GOP caucus steered YouTuber Nick Shirley to day care sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R) said Monday that her caucus pointed conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley in the direction of day care facilities in the state amid concerns over fraud.&nbsp; Demuth said at a virtual press conference that the state GOP has been &ldquo;working with&rdquo; Shirley to address fraud in the state&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5668078-minnesota-welfare-fraud-walz\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R) said Monday that her caucus pointed conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley in the direction of day care facilities in the state amid concerns over fraud.&nbsp; Demuth said at a virtual press conference that the state GOP has been &ldquo;working with&rdquo; Shirley to address fraud in the state&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17243","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\/17243","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=17243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}