{"id":3908,"date":"2023-06-29T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:06:55","slug":"the-problem-with-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"The problem with Republicans \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2023\/06\/29\/the-problem-with-republicans\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2023\/06\/29\/the-problem-with-republicans\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 is its dues-paying members! Pogo, the philosophizing opossum in Walt Kelly\u2019s classic comic strip, famously said, \u201cWe have met the problem and he is us.\u201d In the same vein, the problem with our political parties today are its dues-paying \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2023\/06\/29\/the-problem-with-republicans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2023\/06\/29\/the-problem-with-republicans\/ \u2026 is its dues-paying members! Pogo, the philosophizing opossum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","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\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}