{"id":16536,"date":"2025-05-11T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16536"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T17:56:58","slug":"republicans-are-battling-for-their-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16536","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are battling for their soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/05\/11\/republicans-are-battling-for-their-soul\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/05\/11\/republicans-are-battling-for-their-soul\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>at next weekend\u2019s WI GOP convention Part 1 of 3 In our Boomer-addled imagination, the Wisconsin Republican convention opens May 16-17 outside of Wausau with a full screen, close-up of Bette Davis. As Margo Channing, she advises, \u201cFasten your seatbelts. It\u2019s going to be a bumpy weekend.\u201d The long knives are out. Names are being [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/05\/11\/republicans-are-battling-for-their-soul\/ at next weekend\u2019s WI GOP convention Part 1 of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16537,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions\/16537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}