{"id":17266,"date":"2025-09-02T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17266"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:08:56","slug":"hey-democrats-whats-the-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17266","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Democrats! What\u2019s the big idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/02\/hey-democrats-whats-the-big-idea\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/02\/hey-democrats-whats-the-big-idea\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enough with the excuses! The Capital Times Idea Fest kicks off next Monday. This weeklong program is not a robust contest of ideas as Bill Buckley once hosted on his televised Firing Line. More like a Members Only, progressive treehouse. No-Girlz-Allowed! Heresies will be condemned, orthodoxes confirmed, slogans recited, pronouns observed. Idea Fest features a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/02\/hey-democrats-whats-the-big-idea\/ Enough with the excuses! The Capital Times Idea Fest&#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-17266","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\/17266","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=17266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17267,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions\/17267"}],"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=17266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}