{"id":297882,"date":"2026-07-16T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:17:08","slug":"queens-rep-gregory-meeks-talks-strait-of-hormuz-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297882\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks talks Strait of Hormuz blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration this week resumed its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The White House had first imposed a blockade back in April, but lifted it last month after signing an interim peace deal. Now, negotiations have stalled as the U.S. and Iran intensify airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks joined NY1 anchor Shannan Ferry on &#8220;News All Day&#8221; to discuss the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis president and his folks, they don\u2019t know what they are doing,\u201d Meeks said. \u201cWe are going to be at this for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration this week resumed its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The White House had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2367,7473,9,24,2368,37641,2370,63,122,124,123,2369,200],"class_list":["post-297882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-live-at-noon","tag-ctv","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-all-day","tag-nicholas-loud","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-shannan-ferry","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}