{"id":19786,"date":"2026-03-09T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/utah-republican-burgess-owens-announces-hell-retire-at-the-end-of-this-term-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:22:12","slug":"utah-republican-burgess-owens-announces-hell-retire-at-the-end-of-this-term-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/utah-republican-burgess-owens-announces-hell-retire-at-the-end-of-this-term-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Republican Burgess Owens announces he\u2019ll retire at the end of this term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former NFL player&rsquo;s decision to leave Congress at the end of the current term will help House Republicans maintain their fragile majority&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/04\/congress\/burgess-owens-retires-00813495\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former NFL player&rsquo;s decision to leave Congress at the end of the current term will help House Republicans maintain their fragile majority&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19786","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\/19786","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=19786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}