{"id":22485,"date":"2026-05-10T19:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-us-urgently-needs-a-confirmed-ambassador-for-religious-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:22:11","slug":"the-us-urgently-needs-a-confirmed-ambassador-for-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-us-urgently-needs-a-confirmed-ambassador-for-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The US urgently needs a confirmed ambassador for religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confirmed ambassador carries a diplomatic authority and credibility that no interim arrangement can replicate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/congress-blog\/religious-rights\/5869758-confirmed-ambassador-religious-freedom\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A confirmed ambassador carries a diplomatic authority and credibility that no interim arrangement can replicate&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22485","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\/22485","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=22485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}