{"id":2739,"date":"2024-11-21T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-picks-pete-hoekstra-to-be-us-ambassador-to-canada-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:20:28","slug":"trump-picks-pete-hoekstra-to-be-us-ambassador-to-canada-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-picks-pete-hoekstra-to-be-us-ambassador-to-canada-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks Pete Hoekstra to be US ambassador to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump wants to give former Rep. Pete Hoekstra another turn as a diplomat. Trump announced Wednesday that Hoekstra, who served as ambassador to the Netherlands during his first administration, is his pick for ambassador to Canada for his second. &ldquo;In my Second Term, Pete will once again help me put AMERICA FIRST,&#8221; Trump said in a statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/20\/congress\/ambassador-to-canada-00190813\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump wants to give former Rep. Pete Hoekstra another turn as a diplomat. Trump announced Wednesday that Hoekstra, who served as ambassador to the Netherlands during his first administration, is his pick for ambassador to Canada for his second. &ldquo;In my Second Term, Pete will once again help me put AMERICA FIRST,&#8221; Trump said [&hellip;]<\/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-2739","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\/2739","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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}