{"id":17833,"date":"2026-03-20T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/20\/jonathan-wharton-opinion-true-democracy-is-local-and-thrives-in-new-england-ct-insider\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:32:50","slug":"jonathan-wharton-opinion-true-democracy-is-local-and-thrives-in-new-england-ct-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/20\/jonathan-wharton-opinion-true-democracy-is-local-and-thrives-in-new-england-ct-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Wharton (opinion): True democracy is local, and thrives in New England &#8211; CT Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQRG1uTU4tMGFfZUFZR3praE55N3V2MVhsWHcxbi1nNFlPNHN2STJpOC1OeXNBUDZjS0JocTBJdEdseHNKWHNLWFZwSFJYZks4RHdRZGFMWTdzYnlDTExtSEk0cnducEpEejJwVWZZdXBEY1BWSm5hWkVFdy1ZN1JKRTU1ZXYyQlA1UkpOY0tIS1FQM0l6?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Wharton (opinion): True democracy is local, and thrives in New England<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CT Insider<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Wharton (opinion): True democracy is local, and thrives in New England&nbsp;&nbsp;CT Insider<\/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-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833","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=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}