{"id":209178,"date":"2026-02-06T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209178"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:26:45","slug":"what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209178","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging day care fraud in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley is a 23-year-old self-described &#8220;independent YouTube journalist&#8221; who made prank videos in high school before pivoting to politics. He participated in a White House roundtable in October&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/31\/nx-s1-5662600\/nick-shirley-minnesota-daycare-fraud\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley is a 23-year-old self-described &#8220;independent YouTube journalist&#8221; who made prank videos in high school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota.jpg",1400,788,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota.jpg",1400,788,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota.jpg",1400,788,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209178-what-to-know-about-nick-shirley-the-youtuber-alleging-day-care-fraud-in-minnesota-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}