{"id":47833,"date":"2026-04-03T03:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47833"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:11:34","slug":"trump-says-opening-the-strait-of-hormuz-should-be-easy-will-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47833","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Opening the Strait of Hormuz \u2018Should Be Easy.\u2019 Will It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"css-hple31\">President Trump is asking U.S. allies to \u201cgo to\u201d the Strait of Hormuz \u201cand just take it.\u201d Eric Schmitt, our national security correspondent, explains how difficult it would be to clear the strait by force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Eric Schmitt, Gilad Thaler, Christina Shaman, Laura Salaberry, Rafaela Balster, Whitney Shefte, Adina Renner and Samuel Granados<\/p>\n<p>April 2, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is asking U.S. allies to \u201cgo to\u201d the Strait of Hormuz \u201cand just take it.\u201d Eric Schmitt, our national security correspondent, explains how difficult it would be to clear the strait by force. By Eric Schmitt, Gilad Thaler, Christina Shaman, Laura Salaberry, Rafaela Balster, Whitney Shefte, Adina Renner and Samuel Granados April 2,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5293,1749,2894,1748,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-47833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-easy","9":"tag-hormuz","10":"tag-opening","11":"tag-strait","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}