{"id":155672,"date":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/01\/opinion-why-local-context-is-key-to-building-a-candidate-bench-concord-monitor\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","slug":"opinion-why-local-context-is-key-to-building-a-candidate-bench-concord-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/01\/opinion-why-local-context-is-key-to-building-a-candidate-bench-concord-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why local context is key to building a candidate bench &#8211; Concord Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxObVE5QlM4aFBNQ3ViVi1lbkx2enRMdHNyVklrbDFWWDduQVpTOVYxeEJEV3U1d0o3NnVRWk1ETFlfTE1TQzZ2WllBMVVLWWVYN0dHcXZFekwtVkl2SnJLSUQ5MUxycjJmeVlIQ3dQYkd6a0Q3eFNSZnhjaFAzRll0c2QyTmpmQlJkSFY4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: Why local context is key to building a candidate bench<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Concord Monitor<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Why local context is key to building a candidate bench&nbsp;&nbsp;Concord Monitor<\/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-155672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155672","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=155672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}