{"id":20084,"date":"2026-03-16T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/conan-obrien-kicks-off-oscars-on-serious-note-these-are-very-chaotic-frightening-times\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:22:12","slug":"conan-obrien-kicks-off-oscars-on-serious-note-these-are-very-chaotic-frightening-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/conan-obrien-kicks-off-oscars-on-serious-note-these-are-very-chaotic-frightening-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O&#8217;Brien kicks off Oscars on &#8216;serious&#8217; note: &#8216;These are very chaotic, frightening times&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the one-liners, Conan O&#8217;Brien is striking a serious tone during his Academy Awards monologue, saying the annual Hollywood awards show brings some optimism in these &#8220;chaotic times.&#8221; &#8220;Tonight is an international event,&#8221;  O&#8217;Brien said, following some rapid-fire jokes, as he kicked off the 98th Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5785444-conan-obrien-oscars-optimism\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the one-liners, Conan O&#8217;Brien is striking a serious tone during his Academy Awards monologue, saying the annual Hollywood awards show brings some optimism in these &#8220;chaotic times.&#8221; &#8220;Tonight is an international event,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said, following some rapid-fire jokes, as he kicked off the 98th Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20084","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\/20084","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=20084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}