{"id":174722,"date":"2025-10-03T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174722"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:41:08","slug":"weekend-open-thread-567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174722","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donald-Trump-Chuck-Schumer-Government-shutdown-2025.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-174723\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donald-Trump-Chuck-Schumer-Government-shutdown-2025.jpg?resize=300%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donald-Trump-Chuck-Schumer-Government-shutdown-2025.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donald-Trump-Chuck-Schumer-Government-shutdown-2025.jpg?resize=454%2C333&amp;ssl=1 454w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donald-Trump-Chuck-Schumer-Government-shutdown-2025.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both the Republican and Democratic parties stood their ground regarding the budget. Neither side wanted to back down, resulting in another government shutdown. The Republicans tried to get a continuing resolution through that would fund the government for a short period. However, the Democrats put conditions on it, returning us to the wasteful spending and policies that President Trump wanted us to move away from. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Republican and Democratic parties stood their ground regarding the budget. Neither side wanted to back down, resulting in another government shutdown. The Republicans tried to get a continuing resolution through that would fund the government for a short period. However, the Democrats put conditions on it, returning us to the wasteful spending and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-Js6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}