{"id":8428,"date":"2025-04-21T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-directs-flags-flown-at-half-staff-for-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:20:19","slug":"trump-directs-flags-flown-at-half-staff-for-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-directs-flags-flown-at-half-staff-for-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump directs flags flown at half-staff for Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday directed all federal and state flags to fly at half-staff in commemoration of Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 earlier that morning. The president said he signed an executive order to put the flags at half-staff just before exiting the White House for the traditional Easter Egg Roll&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5258740-trump-flags-half-staff-pope-francis\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday directed all federal and state flags to fly at half-staff in commemoration of Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 earlier that morning. The president said he signed an executive order to put the flags at half-staff just before exiting the White House for the traditional Easter Egg Roll&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","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\/8428","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=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}