{"id":21212,"date":"2026-04-12T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sunday-shows-preview-ceasefire-on-shaky-ground-as-us-iran-hold-direct-talks-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:20:30","slug":"sunday-shows-preview-ceasefire-on-shaky-ground-as-us-iran-hold-direct-talks-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sunday-shows-preview-ceasefire-on-shaky-ground-as-us-iran-hold-direct-talks-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday shows preview: Ceasefire on shaky ground as US, Iran hold direct talks in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior delegations from the U.S. and Iran arrived in Islamabad this week, where Pakistan hosted a high-stakes meeting between the countries just days after announcing a temporary ceasefire had been reached in the Middle East conflict. Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump&rsquo;s son-in-law&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/5827398-sunday-shows-preview-ceasefire-on-shaky-ground-as-us-iran-hold-direct-talks-in-pakistan\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior delegations from the U.S. and Iran arrived in Islamabad this week, where Pakistan hosted a high-stakes meeting between the countries just days after announcing a temporary ceasefire had been reached in the Middle East conflict. Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump&rsquo;s son-in-law&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21212","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\/21212","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=21212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}