{"id":68101,"date":"2026-11-11T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=68101"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:58:33","slug":"listen-to-how-corrupt-politicians-tried-to-convince-president-bukele-why-it-was-a-bad-idea-to-get-rid-of-the-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=68101","title":{"rendered":"Listen to how corrupt politicians tried to convince President Bukele why it was a bad idea to get rid of the gangs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/President_Bukele.jpg\" alt=\"President Bukele\" width=\"275\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/President_Bukele.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/President_Bukele-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ItsBecksBe\/status\/2120132560957145447?a=mQ8p2yKPv3KFJNfP6gw&amp;s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/ItsBecksBe\/status\/2120132560957145447?a=mQ8p2yKPv3KFJNfP6gw&amp;s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0https:\/\/x.com\/ItsBecksBe\/status\/2120132560957145447?a=mQ8p2yKPv3KFJNfP6gw&amp;s=20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68103,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68101\/revisions\/68103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}