{"id":314,"date":"2008-09-24T06:25:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-09-24T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:58:53","slug":"fight-for-the-right-two-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/fight-for-the-right-two-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight for the right two-party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg\/800px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png\" width=\"100\" alt=\"American flag\" style=\"float:left; padding: 12px;\"  \/>We&#8217;re seeing now one insidious danger of entrenching a two-party system into the American process of governance&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>What happens when neither party fields a compelling slate of candidates?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And while it might be desirable to restrict the final contenders to one of two parties, who on earth ever allowed Democrats and Republicans to decree (and subsequently legislate) that <em>they<\/em> would automatically be the parties?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re seeing now one insidious danger of entrenching a two-party system into the American process of governance&#8211; What happens when neither party fields a compelling slate of candidates? And while it might be desirable to restrict the final contenders to one of two parties, who on earth ever allowed Democrats and Republicans to decree (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}