{"id":4510,"date":"2025-01-06T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/we-cannot-afford-to-delay-modernizing-the-us-power-grid\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:20:19","slug":"we-cannot-afford-to-delay-modernizing-the-us-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/we-cannot-afford-to-delay-modernizing-the-us-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"We cannot afford to delay modernizing the US power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his first presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to modernize America&#8217;s outdated infrastructure. As it turned out, it was President Biden who worked with Congress to appropriate $1.2 trillion to repair and update the nation&#8217;s power lines, pipes, bridges and highways.  Without a single Republican vote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/5066426-infrastructure-energy-investments\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his first presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to modernize America&#8217;s outdated infrastructure. As it turned out, it was President Biden who worked with Congress to appropriate $1.2 trillion to repair and update the nation&#8217;s power lines, pipes, bridges and highways. Without a single Republican vote&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","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\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}