{"id":2305,"date":"2024-11-12T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/lobbyists-exploit-massive-loophole-to-wine-and-dine-lawmakers-aides-at-fancy-getaways-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:20:23","slug":"lobbyists-exploit-massive-loophole-to-wine-and-dine-lawmakers-aides-at-fancy-getaways-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lobbyists-exploit-massive-loophole-to-wine-and-dine-lawmakers-aides-at-fancy-getaways-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbyists exploit massive loophole to wine and dine lawmakers, aides at fancy getaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading the way is the nonprofit Congressional Institute, which is run by veteran Republican staffers and funded by $3 million in annual dues from private interest groups&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/22\/lobbyists-flout-ethics-rules-free-trips-00176749\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading the way is the nonprofit Congressional Institute, which is run by veteran Republican staffers and funded by $3 million in annual dues from private interest groups&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}