{"id":126915,"date":"2022-08-02T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=126915"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:29:48","slug":"the-american-republic-is-categorically-not-a-democracy-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=126915","title":{"rendered":"The American Republic is categorically NOT a Democracy! Here&#8217;s why:"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cDemocracy is two wolves and a lamb <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>voting on what to have for lunch.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; Benjamin Franklin<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e8b7d3858ef89c2172c0a5bbde83c5ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126923\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e8b7d3858ef89c2172c0a5bbde83c5ec.jpg 400w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e8b7d3858ef89c2172c0a5bbde83c5ec-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDemocracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}