{"id":4150,"date":"2026-02-25T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:27:08","slug":"why-us-womens-hockey-team-didnt-accept-donald-trumps-invitation-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=4150","title":{"rendered":"Why US women\u2019s hockey team didn\u2019t accept Donald Trump\u2019s invitation to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind the podium applause and locker-room jokes lies a quieter, more complicated story. The U.S. women\u2019s team, fresh off an overtime win against Canada, chose school, jobs, and their own boundaries over a made-for-TV celebration in Washington. Their official explanation was diplomatic; the timing wasn\u2019t right, their lives were already in motion. Yet their absence, framed against the men\u2019s smiling visit, felt like a statement without a slogan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump insists they will \u201csoon\u201d come to the White House, but for now, the champions who lit up Milan are staying on their own ice. Around them, fans argue, pundits dissect, and social media searches for hidden motives. Inside the program, voices like Ellen Hughes point back to something simpler: a united locker room, men and women cheering for each other, trying to keep the focus on hockey while the country projects its battles onto their golden shoulders.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the podium applause and locker-room jokes lies a quieter, more complicated story. The U.S. women\u2019s team, fresh off an overtime win against Canada, chose school, jobs, and their own &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}