{"id":8580,"date":"2025-04-27T05:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-kicks-off-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:25:17","slug":"live-updates-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-kicks-off-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-kicks-off-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner kicks off in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Correspondents&#8217; Association (WHCA) dinner and its related parties are well underway in Washington &mdash; albeit with a bit less glitz and glamour than previous years. President Trump opted against attending the annual bash amid a terse relationship with the press corps, who condemned the administration&#8217;s decision to bar the Associated Press from&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5268137-live-updates-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Correspondents&#8217; Association (WHCA) dinner and its related parties are well underway in Washington &mdash; albeit with a bit less glitz and glamour than previous years. President Trump opted against attending the annual bash amid a terse relationship with the press corps, who condemned the administration&#8217;s decision to bar the Associated Press from&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","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\/8580","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=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}