{"id":273684,"date":"2016-10-18T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/congress-sinks-to-new-depths\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:39:16","slug":"congress-sinks-to-new-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/congress-sinks-to-new-depths\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Sinks to New Depths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sad state of American democracy \u2013 from the presidential race to Congress \u2013 is easy to lament as something beyond correction, but change is possible if the electorate starts taking citizenship seriously, says Mike Lofgren. By Mike Lofgren We&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/10\/18\/congress-sinks-to-new-depths\/\">Read more &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/10\/18\/congress-sinks-to-new-depths\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sad state of American democracy \u2013 from the presidential race to Congress \u2013 is easy to lament as something beyond correction, but change is possible if the electorate starts taking citizenship seriously, says Mike Lofgren. By Mike Lofgren We&#8230; Read more &#8594; Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-273684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}