{"id":130644,"date":"2026-08-03T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/03\/opinion-the-hidden-cost-of-the-governments-corporate-buying-spree-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:11:27","slug":"opinion-the-hidden-cost-of-the-governments-corporate-buying-spree-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/03\/opinion-the-hidden-cost-of-the-governments-corporate-buying-spree-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The hidden cost of the government\u2019s corporate buying spree &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxQQk5KVGdBUHNxZFo5WTV5Q2JSQjNDd0xZaHNBbjVFX2VCSXhIR0pDTFZNbktVTS1tM19tWC1LeFJyWEhzTG9WRlNLQWNYbU5SXzVTSGlZT0ZCLVNXZnNibS1tZG9Ka2tzLVFHYTI4eXlrdG5kZk9TYkE3UFgzZG5sVUw4RXM0SnRXS25SUGVhZlRKUUtkSkthRzV1RF8tYnRaMTdDdzVNRXFPbklyR25VNmxuSEJxamd3a3NDUVpR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | The hidden cost of the government\u2019s corporate buying spree<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | The hidden cost of the government\u2019s corporate buying spree&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post<\/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-130644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644","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=130644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}