{"id":157,"date":"2005-03-12T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/the-road-to-democracy\/"},"modified":"2005-03-12T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T19:45:00","slug":"the-road-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/12\/the-road-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The road to democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I thought that you knew you had a functioning democracy when the ruling political party voluntarily steps down after losing an election. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucomics.com\/bensargent\/2005\/03\/11\/\">Ben Sargent<\/a> is much more sophisticated.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/sargentbeirut.gif\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I thought that you knew you had a functioning democracy when the ruling political party voluntarily steps down after losing an election. Ben Sargent is much more sophisticated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}