{"id":21916,"date":"2026-04-27T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oz-pearlman-recounts-whca-dinner-shooting-really-shocking\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:22:23","slug":"oz-pearlman-recounts-whca-dinner-shooting-really-shocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oz-pearlman-recounts-whca-dinner-shooting-really-shocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Oz Pearlman recounts WHCA dinner shooting: &#8216;Really shocking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mentalist Oz Pearlman on Sunday recounted when a gunman exchanged fire with law enforcement outside the ballroom where Saturday&rsquo;s White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner was taking place. Pearlman told host Dana Bash on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union&rdquo; that he was performing a trick for President Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5849916-pearlman-recounts-chaotic-white-house-dinner\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentalist Oz Pearlman on Sunday recounted when a gunman exchanged fire with law enforcement outside the ballroom where Saturday&rsquo;s White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner was taking place. Pearlman told host Dana Bash on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union&rdquo; that he was performing a trick for President Trump&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21916","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\/21916","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=21916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}