{"id":8420,"date":"2025-04-20T23:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-pentagon-official-warns-departments-dysfunction-could-topple-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:17:10","slug":"former-pentagon-official-warns-departments-dysfunction-could-topple-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-pentagon-official-warns-departments-dysfunction-could-topple-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pentagon official warns department&#8217;s dysfunction could topple Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cThe last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,\u201d John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, wrote in a Blue Light News Magazine opinion piece.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,\u201d John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, wrote in a Blue Light News Magazine opinion piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}