{"id":22180,"date":"2026-05-02T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/charges-dropped-for-booker-staffer-who-brought-gun-into-capitol-without-a-license-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:22:17","slug":"charges-dropped-for-booker-staffer-who-brought-gun-into-capitol-without-a-license-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/charges-dropped-for-booker-staffer-who-brought-gun-into-capitol-without-a-license-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped for Booker staffer who brought gun into Capitol without a license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The staffer received $6,000 in contributions to his legal expense fund stemming from the incident&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/30\/congress\/gun-case-dropped-booker-staffer-00895967\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staffer received $6,000 in contributions to his legal expense fund stemming from the incident&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22180","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\/22180","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=22180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}