{"id":4963,"date":"2026-03-15T02:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/dire-strait\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:45:43","slug":"dire-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/dire-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>The Trump administration obviously knew that the Iranians could close the Strait of Hormuz, but it didn\u2019t necessarily think they <i>would<\/i>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/dire-strait\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration obviously knew that the Iranians could close the Strait of Hormuz, but it didn\u2019t necessarily think they would. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conservative-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}