{"id":1276,"date":"2004-08-24T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2018-08-13T05:19:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:19:39","slug":"1276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/24\/1276\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Monk <a href=\"http:\/\/thekeymonk.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/electoral-college-and-american.html\" target=\"_new\">defends the electoral college system<\/a> with better reasoning and eloquence that I have.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\" target=\"_new\">Outside the Beltway<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Monk defends the electoral college system with better reasoning and eloquence that I have. (Link seen on Outside the Beltway.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22927,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/22927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}