{"id":18730,"date":"2026-02-07T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/woodward-says-he-was-crushed-by-washington-post-layoffs-colleagues-deserve-more\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:14","slug":"woodward-says-he-was-crushed-by-washington-post-layoffs-colleagues-deserve-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/woodward-says-he-was-crushed-by-washington-post-layoffs-colleagues-deserve-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward says he was &#8216;crushed&#8217; by Washington Post layoffs: Colleagues &#8216;deserve more&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward said Friday that he was &ldquo;crushed&rdquo; by the recent layoffs at the newspaper, saying his colleagues &ldquo;deserve more.&rdquo; &ldquo;The Washington Post has been my professional home for 55 years. I believe in it. I love it,&#8221; Woodward, who started at the paper in 1971&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5727840-bob-woodward-washington-post-layoffs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward said Friday that he was &ldquo;crushed&rdquo; by the recent layoffs at the newspaper, saying his colleagues &ldquo;deserve more.&rdquo; &ldquo;The Washington Post has been my professional home for 55 years. I believe in it. I love it,&#8221; Woodward, who started at the paper in 1971&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18730","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\/18730","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=18730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}