{"id":18640,"date":"2026-02-04T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-hospitalized-for-flu-like-symptoms-spokesperson-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:22:14","slug":"mcconnell-hospitalized-for-flu-like-symptoms-spokesperson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-hospitalized-for-flu-like-symptoms-spokesperson-says\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell hospitalized for flu-like symptoms, spokesperson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checked himself into the hospital on Monday evening for flu-like symptoms, his office confirmed Tuesday. A spokesperson for McConnell&rsquo;s office said the 83-year-old senator began experiencing symptoms this weekend and went to a local hospital &ldquo;out of an abundance of caution.&rdquo; &ldquo;His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5721805-mcconnell-hospitalized-flu-like-symptoms\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checked himself into the hospital on Monday evening for flu-like symptoms, his office confirmed Tuesday. A spokesperson for McConnell&rsquo;s office said the 83-year-old senator began experiencing symptoms this weekend and went to a local hospital &ldquo;out of an abundance of caution.&rdquo; &ldquo;His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18640","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\/18640","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=18640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}