{"id":2580,"date":"2024-11-18T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-calls-gaetz-one-of-the-brightest-minds-in-washington-or-anywhere\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:26:14","slug":"johnson-calls-gaetz-one-of-the-brightest-minds-in-washington-or-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-calls-gaetz-one-of-the-brightest-minds-in-washington-or-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson calls Gaetz &#8216;one of the brightest minds in Washington or anywhere&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that President-elect Trump&rsquo;s attorney general pick, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), is &ldquo;one of the brightest minds&rdquo; in Washington. In an interview on &ldquo;Fox News Sunday&rdquo; with Shannon Bream, Johnson downplayed concerns about Gaetz&rsquo;s nomination and praised him as a reformer&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4995179-mike-johnson-matt-gaetz-brightest-minds\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that President-elect Trump&rsquo;s attorney general pick, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), is &ldquo;one of the brightest minds&rdquo; in Washington. In an interview on &ldquo;Fox News Sunday&rdquo; with Shannon Bream, Johnson downplayed concerns about Gaetz&rsquo;s nomination and praised him as a reformer&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","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\/2580","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=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}