{"id":634142,"date":"2026-07-12T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=634142"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:13:19","slug":"sen-lindsey-graham-has-died-after-a-brief-and-unexpected-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=634142","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Lindsey Graham has died after a brief and unexpected illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Trump&#8217;s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more muscular U.S. foreign policy abroad, died Saturday evening after a &#8220;brief and sudden illness,&#8221; his office said in a statement posted on social media. He was 71.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/07\/12\/Lindsey_Graham_Dies_31875_s1440x961.jpg?6ffc4d3d57b058013256ad5bbd6d52434af2a762\" title=\"Sen. Lindsey Graham has died after a brief and unexpected illness\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Trump&#8217;s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more muscular U.S. foreign policy abroad, died Saturday evening after a &#8220;brief and sudden illness,&#8221; his office said in a statement posted on social media. He was 71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/634143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}