{"id":23698,"date":"2026-06-05T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-members-keep-losing-their-bids-for-higher-office-some-think-they-know-why-3\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:22:15","slug":"house-members-keep-losing-their-bids-for-higher-office-some-think-they-know-why-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-members-keep-losing-their-bids-for-higher-office-some-think-they-know-why-3\/","title":{"rendered":"House members keep losing their bids for higher office. Some think they know why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters have not been especially excited to promote members of an unpopular and dysfunctional institution&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/05\/house-losers-2026-election-primaries-00951387\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters have not been especially excited to promote members of an unpopular and dysfunctional institution&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698","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=23698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}