{"id":148881,"date":"2026-08-25T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/25\/enough-with-the-podcasts-we-elected-politicians-not-influencers-opinion-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:09:00","slug":"enough-with-the-podcasts-we-elected-politicians-not-influencers-opinion-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/25\/enough-with-the-podcasts-we-elected-politicians-not-influencers-opinion-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the podcasts. We elected politicians, not influencers. | Opinion &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAFBVV95cUxNTlFJSXlBaTVYNzNTTXFTaDlzUzJqTmIxVjhJbzQ4WDI3cU5nem5vRTBaUkp6VUlWY1pkdFViQnpjXzVhQWg3TVZtME12dmlYdVdVRG5GeEVYME5ZZTZJOW5ET0xuMXAta1R5Sm5QbGVicmlkQ0JkY3F1bTQwbWNrUjVRckdnNXlwYzNOZFdncDlwdndsQU93cWRXSF9vOVlBbUZ6SHNEYlpjZjIxRWNid0swdTJuZFJhcEo4OA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Enough with the podcasts. We elected politicians, not influencers. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough with the podcasts. We elected politicians, not influencers. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/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-148881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148881","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=148881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}