{"id":20705,"date":"2026-03-28T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:21:42","slug":"rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul weighs a 2028 presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul hopes to carve out a libertarian lane in a party he says is shaped by populism&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/27\/congress\/rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid-00849082\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul hopes to carve out a libertarian lane in a party he says is shaped by populism&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20705","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\/20705","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=20705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}