{"id":19042,"date":"2026-03-22T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/22\/simkins-transparency-needed-in-elections-and-taxes-too-opinion-springfield-news-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:42:21","slug":"simkins-transparency-needed-in-elections-and-taxes-too-opinion-springfield-news-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/22\/simkins-transparency-needed-in-elections-and-taxes-too-opinion-springfield-news-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Simkins: Transparency needed in elections and taxes, too | Opinion &#8211; Springfield News-Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxNaGxnY3dpb01SVDRuUVhYcUwwb3QwLUtPbkVIelV4WjBoUEZpQ0JMNXdReUZ0MXhvX0NZb2ZyWUgzMXJnbDZoWjBiQXhEekxxbmdqd2xPcnY4TS1YZFBHb3otSVEyencyMEc3ZlZkUlBHUDdnZXpOeEotcHY2akQzSFFuM0VTZ09kd09OZVBzeGhpbEwwbDh5VDJQTG4zazdPd0Z2UUR3U1J1NVQybFJRb0tYWk1majZUS0hqTDBn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Simkins: Transparency needed in elections and taxes, too | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Springfield News-Leader<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simkins: Transparency needed in elections and taxes, too | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;Springfield News-Leader<\/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-19042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042","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=19042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}