{"id":137822,"date":"2026-08-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/14\/opinion-why-kansas-might-elect-its-first-democratic-senator-in-nearly-100-years-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:00:00","slug":"opinion-why-kansas-might-elect-its-first-democratic-senator-in-nearly-100-years-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/14\/opinion-why-kansas-might-elect-its-first-democratic-senator-in-nearly-100-years-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Why Kansas might elect its first Democratic senator in nearly 100 years &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQeHJ0YXlJUGhWZXVvM3UybU1MMUtSbWNsZXN3RlQ5T1NVSDREX2Fkb3Rzc1dfUDRIN1hVaENJb2tpdFV3NGFkb0UzSFNyX2owc0xQeklobmpNSVJHbmszcktIakRDU0g4VnhxYVhqZVhNWWdUNWFyeTVwZmd2OWNFMjN5ZDduVElsM2RScjE3QmdrX0c3R1ZDRUItSWlWTlFzOWxscEJfTUdMNWYtOExFYg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | Why Kansas might elect its first Democratic senator in nearly 100 years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | Why Kansas might elect its first Democratic senator in nearly 100 years&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-137822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137822","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=137822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}