{"id":8072,"date":"2025-04-08T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/stephen-a-smith-leaving-all-doors-open-for-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:23:18","slug":"stephen-a-smith-leaving-all-doors-open-for-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/stephen-a-smith-leaving-all-doors-open-for-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith &#8216;leaving all doors open&#8217; for presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith on Monday said he is &ldquo;leaving all doors open&rdquo; when it comes to a presidential bid. &ldquo;Time to stop messing around. Life is great. Especially at ESPN\/Disney. Hate the thought of being a politician. But sick of this mess. So I&rsquo;m officially leaving all doors open,&rdquo; Smith said in a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5237206-stephen-a-smith-leaving-all-doors-open-for-presidential-bid\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith on Monday said he is &ldquo;leaving all doors open&rdquo; when it comes to a presidential bid. &ldquo;Time to stop messing around. Life is great. Especially at ESPN\/Disney. Hate the thought of being a politician. But sick of this mess. So I&rsquo;m officially leaving all doors open,&rdquo; Smith said in a&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","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\/8072","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=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}