{"id":22946,"date":"2026-08-26T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22946"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:10:20","slug":"hegseths-army-purge-and-polling-chaos-in-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22946","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth\u2019s Army Purge, and Polling Chaos in the Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s Secretary of Defense has been firing high-ranking military leaders and often gives little reason why. This removes quality experience and makes it seems like if officers want to get promoted, they have to fit in with Trump politically.&nbsp;<\/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=\"Hegseth\u2019s Army Purge, and Polling Chaos in the Midterms\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sIYHzDrbmq4?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>Trump&#8217;s Secretary of Defense has been firing high-ranking military leaders and often gives little reason why. This removes quality experience and makes it seems like if officers want to get promoted, they have to fit in with Trump politically. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sIYHzDrbmq4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[886,162,221,904,259,2285,170],"class_list":["post-22946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-army","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-fired","tag-military","tag-secretary-of-defense","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946","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=22946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22947,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22946\/revisions\/22947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}