{"id":61772,"date":"2018-10-08T03:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T01:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/08\/taylor-swift-breaks-political-silence-to-endorse-democrats-in-us-midterms\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T03:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T01:37:20","slug":"taylor-swift-breaks-political-silence-to-endorse-democrats-in-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=61772","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift breaks political silence to endorse Democrats in US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer writes on social media that she now feels very differently about voicing her political opinionsTaylor Swift has made her first foray into US politics, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming midterm elections, while aligning herself to fight for LGBTQ rights, gender equity, and an end to the \u201cterrifying, sickening and prevalent\u201d racism in the US.\u201cIn the past I\u2019ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,\u201d Swift wrote on social media on Sunday night, in a plea for her young fans to register and vote. The post accrued 360,000 Instagram likes within the first hour. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/oct\/08\/taylor-swift-breaks-political-silence-to-endorse-democrats-in-us-midterms\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift breaks political silence to endorse Democrats in US midterms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer writes on social media that she now feels very differently about voicing her political opinionsTaylor Swift has made her first foray into US politics, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming midterm elections, while aligning herself to fight for LGBTQ rights, gender equity, and an end to the \u201cterrifying, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}