{"id":360,"date":"2004-07-13T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T07:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2004-07-13T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T07:29:59","slug":"democracys_decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Democracy&#8217;s Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/opinion\/index.php?ntid=6748&#038;ntpid=0\">Today&#8217;s WSJ editorial<\/a> correctly identiifes the major problem we, as a democratic society have with limited, or no ballot choices.  I believe one of the reasons for this problem is the <a href=\"http:\/\/talonnews.com\/news\/2003\/june\/0613_argus_leaderp.shtml\">increasingly cozy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=fox+news+republican+ties&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">ties<\/a> between a concentrated media (which growing numbers of citizens are turning off) and politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s WSJ editorial correctly identiifes the major problem we, as a democratic society have with limited, or no ballot choices. I believe one of the reasons for this problem is the increasingly cozy ties between a concentrated media (which growing numbers of citizens are turning off) and politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}