{"id":130268,"date":"2026-08-03T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/03\/opinion-the-gops-biggest-threat-isnt-independents-its-bad-ideas-like-closed-primaries-alabama-political-reporter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:46:00","slug":"opinion-the-gops-biggest-threat-isnt-independents-its-bad-ideas-like-closed-primaries-alabama-political-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/03\/opinion-the-gops-biggest-threat-isnt-independents-its-bad-ideas-like-closed-primaries-alabama-political-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The GOP\u2019s biggest threat isn\u2019t independents\u2014it\u2019s bad ideas like closed primaries &#8211; Alabama Political Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxOS0RiVHFHNjZQSmhZQmxRcWNQSGJleV9lTzJZUXVOSEY2MW9DUlpZbmhRd3ZXQ1ZNaEoxV1JBOFlqbkx0OW1BZ0VBY1JscUhiUEF6MTFxdHR1MU1SWnJmdk5CazBRSzkwQnd5TmFrYmNCT2lvQzVnU25iNUlid0hMOWpObHQyNk9HUFpVcTRUUENaTlRYb1plNUVIc3I4NE9kd25zNWJ1SHBtTGRQYlgwQ1VkS2RORG5PUXlHR3VMejdOZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | The GOP\u2019s biggest threat isn\u2019t independents\u2014it\u2019s bad ideas like closed primaries<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Alabama Political Reporter<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | The GOP\u2019s biggest threat isn\u2019t independents\u2014it\u2019s bad ideas like closed primaries&nbsp;&nbsp;Alabama Political Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130268","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=130268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}