{"id":21823,"date":"2026-03-14T00:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21823"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:20:49","slug":"secretary-hegseth-on-the-strait-of-hormuz-dont-worry-about-it-march-13-2026-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21823","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Hegseth on the Strait of Hormuz: DON&#8217;T WORRY ABOUT IT | March 13, 2026 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Protecting shipping would require pulling assets away from offense. Destroying 95% of Iranian weaponry does not matter if they can still threaten ships. Iranian oil ships are still going through the Strait. The US isn&#8217;t stopping Iranian oil ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secretary Hegseth on the Strait of Hormuz:  DON&#039;T WORRY ABOUT IT | March 13, 2026 Update\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W5S2ek2QcHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting shipping would require pulling assets away from offense. Destroying 95% of Iranian weaponry does not matter if they can still threaten ships. Iranian oil ships are still going through the Strait. The US isn&#8217;t stopping Iranian oil ships. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W5S2ek2QcHQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,272,355,314,156,576,1265,578,384,619,158],"class_list":["post-21823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-oil-price","tag-price","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21824,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}