{"id":17618,"date":"2026-01-12T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steny-hoyer-set-to-announce-retirement-from-congress-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:20:31","slug":"steny-hoyer-set-to-announce-retirement-from-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steny-hoyer-set-to-announce-retirement-from-congress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steny Hoyer set to announce retirement from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former second-ranking House Democrat has held his seat since 1981&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/steny-hoyer-retirement-00715790\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former second-ranking House Democrat has held his seat since 1981&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17618","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\/17618","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=17618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}