{"id":20550,"date":"2026-03-25T22:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maxine-waters-87-refuses-to-retire-could-chair-powerful-committee\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:20:30","slug":"maxine-waters-87-refuses-to-retire-could-chair-powerful-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maxine-waters-87-refuses-to-retire-could-chair-powerful-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Waters, 87, refuses to retire, could chair powerful committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gerontocracy&nbsp;is firmly in control of the U.S. government.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/robbys-radar\/5800656-congress-tech-regulation-age\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gerontocracy&nbsp;is firmly in control of the U.S. government.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20550","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\/20550","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=20550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}