{"id":17153,"date":"2026-03-19T18:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/19\/not-about-sports-advocates-call-out-billionaire-backed-ballot-initiative-as-an-extremist-attempt-to-take-over-maine-politics-maine-beacon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:54:57","slug":"not-about-sports-advocates-call-out-billionaire-backed-ballot-initiative-as-an-extremist-attempt-to-take-over-maine-politics-maine-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/19\/not-about-sports-advocates-call-out-billionaire-backed-ballot-initiative-as-an-extremist-attempt-to-take-over-maine-politics-maine-beacon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not about sports\u2019: Advocates call out billionaire-backed ballot initiative as an extremist attempt to take over Maine politics &#8211; Maine Beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi4wFBVV95cUxQS3NSM08tQU0ycnBTLWtQSW11TXVDMUNxNXc5aHViaFpvLU5PeDdVcnoyYnJBaTF1djhVV1dyUzFLS29CSTBURXRIYXZaYmpjX2hTakJsVVNOM3lxT3pIMHlEWGZNWEIzQnQ4TVM4LWlMdHNZUWtvYk5EaEo4YUxpSWo0OEw3bk1JR2lZWkJUNjhFOHNPbEpHSXZCTjBsZXhhSjBuaEhxMEZydmtpWHRzVDg5ZUhhNW1KbnoxWWF0alNsd3dSbTRLUVNvUTRjanZLVjVZaEljaDhwZUJtYThfVXRwWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Not about sports\u2019: Advocates call out billionaire-backed ballot initiative as an extremist attempt to take over Maine politics<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Maine Beacon<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Not about sports\u2019: Advocates call out billionaire-backed ballot initiative as an extremist attempt to take over Maine politics&nbsp;&nbsp;Maine Beacon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","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=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}