{"id":147268,"date":"2026-08-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/23\/leadoff-democratic-caucuses-arent-coming-back-let-them-go-opinion-the-des-moines-register\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:00:00","slug":"leadoff-democratic-caucuses-arent-coming-back-let-them-go-opinion-the-des-moines-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/23\/leadoff-democratic-caucuses-arent-coming-back-let-them-go-opinion-the-des-moines-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadoff Democratic Caucuses aren&#8217;t coming back. Let them go. | Opinion &#8211; The Des Moines Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiygFBVV95cUxOVkpFR2g1Tm5DbnE2Q21pV0FlUVV1RHFUb2JNY2ltNDFmcnl5MlNoakxUM0dYdnRiME5YMnlULXlfOHg0LTc0bjJBa3JkNktRa3VsSDhuZDZVR0dnYU9fNXBseUhqU21MTDNHcmFWZ0NYbmtzSFdmTnkwdk1ZeWRBVGZWWXZZbW9ocldxeFBla0tONWIwcW1QQnlMb0tfSkxBb0pnX2s2eWhwN2NteFFxMzdTeDFxLXRmRzc0d1Z6Qm1Jak1QZUVRUWp3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Leadoff Democratic Caucuses aren&#8217;t coming back. Let them go. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Des Moines Register<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadoff Democratic Caucuses aren&#8217;t coming back. Let them go. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;The Des Moines Register<\/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-147268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147268","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=147268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}