{"id":149708,"date":"2026-08-26T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/26\/enough-with-the-podcasts-we-elected-politicians-not-influencers-opinion-the-detroit-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:11:00","slug":"enough-with-the-podcasts-we-elected-politicians-not-influencers-opinion-the-detroit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/26\/enough-with-the-podcasts-we-elected-politicians-not-influencers-opinion-the-detroit-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the podcasts. We elected politicians, not influencers. | Opinion &#8211; The Detroit News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizgFBVV95cUxQd0ZZNWYtX3RKRzhyekVkMERiQ2xFckVkamJLbllXdmZnNFJHV0dKVDFjM3dZWmhsSTAwVk5YMS1sdmwtd00xMl9ON3lSanU5a2RTNnhRTnZqbGhyVW4tb2p5a3pVQ2NoeWZYdy1ndGNtZS1MRktxdDVoUjlXdVRfbHhtWDlQOWhUa3NrdjFHNkZIVGtQM3NUWTB6TDVKS1ROd0xhTTVNeHZzZWRGV2FxVFo3bnZMM1hHdWFDRmlleGMwZ1U0U2tuNy1Hei01UQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Enough with the podcasts. We elected politicians, not influencers. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Detroit News<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough with the podcasts. We elected politicians, not influencers. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;The Detroit News<\/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-149708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149708","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=149708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}