{"id":19113,"date":"2026-02-18T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-says-hed-rather-eat-glass-than-fill-klobuchars-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:15","slug":"walz-says-hed-rather-eat-glass-than-fill-klobuchars-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-says-hed-rather-eat-glass-than-fill-klobuchars-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz says he&#8217;d &#8216;rather eat glass&#8217; than fill Klobuchar&#8217;s Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said on Tuesday that he would &ldquo;rather eat glass&rdquo; than replace gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar&rsquo;s (D-Minn.) in her U.S. Senate seat if she is elected.  The lighthearted moment occurred when the governor took a question on the way to the podium at a press conference on Tuesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5742902-minnesota-tim-walz-klobuchar-senate-seat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said on Tuesday that he would &ldquo;rather eat glass&rdquo; than replace gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar&rsquo;s (D-Minn.) in her U.S. Senate seat if she is elected. The lighthearted moment occurred when the governor took a question on the way to the podium at a press conference on Tuesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19113","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\/19113","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=19113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}