{"id":17611,"date":"2026-01-12T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-bombing-iran-is-not-the-answer-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:22:11","slug":"rand-paul-bombing-iran-is-not-the-answer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-bombing-iran-is-not-the-answer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: Bombing Iran \u2018is not the answer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s the job of the American government to be involved with every freedom movement around the world,&rdquo; the Kentucky senator said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/11\/rand-paul-bombing-iran-not-the-answer-00721432\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s the job of the American government to be involved with every freedom movement around the world,&rdquo; the Kentucky senator said&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17611","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\/17611","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=17611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}