{"id":20988,"date":"2026-04-06T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republican-says-he-doesnt-think-ground-troops-will-be-needed-to-open-the-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:22:14","slug":"house-republican-says-he-doesnt-think-ground-troops-will-be-needed-to-open-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republican-says-he-doesnt-think-ground-troops-will-be-needed-to-open-the-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican says he doesn\u2019t think ground troops will be needed to open the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Sunday said he doesn&rsquo;t think a ground invasion will be needed to open the Strait of Hormuz as the critical choke point has remained closed for more than a month.&nbsp; Iran has planted mines in the waterway and threatened to shoot any &ldquo;enemy&rdquo; ships attempting to travel through&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5817265-ground-invasion-strait-hormuz\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Sunday said he doesn&rsquo;t think a ground invasion will be needed to open the Strait of Hormuz as the critical choke point has remained closed for more than a month.&nbsp; Iran has planted mines in the waterway and threatened to shoot any &ldquo;enemy&rdquo; ships attempting to travel through&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20988","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\/20988","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=20988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}