{"id":208468,"date":"2026-06-02T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:07:35","slug":"local-political-leaders-say-rhetoric-has-grown-more-violent-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208468\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Political Leaders Say Rhetoric Has Grown More Violent | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Inside Erie Politics, Mike Ruzzi and Philip Ward talked with Pennsylvania Democratic State Rep. Pat Harkins, newly-elected Pennsylvania State Republican Committee member Brian Shank and Erie News Now political contributor Dr. Jeff Bloodworth about the rise of violent political rhetoric and how much of a role social media has played in fueling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Inside Erie Politics, Mike Ruzzi and Philip Ward talked with Pennsylvania Democratic State Rep. Pat Harkins, newly-elected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139,28,50,85],"class_list":["post-208468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}