{"id":114702,"date":"2026-06-08T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/i-grew-up-in-california-dont-follow-its-lead-your-turn-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:31:00","slug":"i-grew-up-in-california-dont-follow-its-lead-your-turn-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/i-grew-up-in-california-dont-follow-its-lead-your-turn-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I grew up in California. Don&#8217;t follow its lead. | Your Turn &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxNaERCc2xTMGI2b3pTLVowRnYxY3FZTFFyRkthYTg4MEZVNmxPZnk0Q0FUYlZnTF9Sa0EyTVY2NVlDMEhXZXhQNkRCNmRiTkY3allYUlp3eFd5YTZtaEZobklRcVRXSVhVaDU2SXRBUG1CUmdCZHFiOHNkZVFyakpTY3lCRURHaGVFbVBhc1RkWjd3SVhWeFA2N3RZcnJmd1JYS2JHVUg3M1JLbXBNN1RBMzlfQ2wwZ3Ji?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">I grew up in California. Don&#8217;t follow its lead. | Your Turn<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in California. Don&#8217;t follow its lead. | Your Turn&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}