{"id":143073,"date":"2026-08-19T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/19\/opinion-america-has-3-billion-words-of-legal-code-riddled-with-policy-sludge-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:32:46","slug":"opinion-america-has-3-billion-words-of-legal-code-riddled-with-policy-sludge-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/19\/opinion-america-has-3-billion-words-of-legal-code-riddled-with-policy-sludge-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | America has 3 billion words of legal code riddled with \u2018policy sludge\u2019 &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPN0NTY0I1eFBjUEhNVERMZmpFdWhRbGVub29haFlaSS1nU1k5c0pYNnU4OG9DUkg0UEJDQ3FNTnN5YVJrVVJpUURDdTRKVk9FNXZ3XzAtc3lMNmpoa1hOQnpGRkNmU21WeFh1bnlKV2Mwdmx1SjdIV3ZhWWUyN3B2MHhLZjBYWFAxaHdKcldWcnNhdmJrN0hhWUtrYnVHN3JwWjAyOVo4MWFaZUNNekJxRA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | America has 3 billion words of legal code riddled with \u2018policy sludge\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | America has 3 billion words of legal code riddled with \u2018policy sludge\u2019&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-143073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143073","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=143073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}