{"id":7587,"date":"2025-03-23T06:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T06:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmakers-booed-at-town-halls-defend-hosting-events-despite-advice-from-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T06:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T06:20:57","slug":"gop-lawmakers-booed-at-town-halls-defend-hosting-events-despite-advice-from-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmakers-booed-at-town-halls-defend-hosting-events-despite-advice-from-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmakers booed at town halls defend hosting events despite advice from leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans who faced hostile crowds and viral confrontations at town halls in their districts are defending their decision to hold the events &mdash; despite recommendations from House GOP leaders to avoid them. &ldquo;I think that was able to show folks that Republicans can and should stand our ground,&rdquo; Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5208417-house-republicans-town-halls\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans who faced hostile crowds and viral confrontations at town halls in their districts are defending their decision to hold the events &mdash; despite recommendations from House GOP leaders to avoid them. &ldquo;I think that was able to show folks that Republicans can and should stand our ground,&rdquo; Rep&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7587","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\/7587","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=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}