{"id":22892,"date":"2026-05-18T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senators-vote-to-block-their-pay-during-government-shutdowns-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:22:10","slug":"senators-vote-to-block-their-pay-during-government-shutdowns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senators-vote-to-block-their-pay-during-government-shutdowns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators vote to block their pay during government shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rule change will kick in after the midterm elections in November&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/14\/congress\/senators-vote-to-block-their-pay-during-government-shutdowns-00920933\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rule change will kick in after the midterm elections in November&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22892","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\/22892","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=22892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}