{"id":26595,"date":"2026-03-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/30\/column-the-time-has-come-to-discard-californias-top-two-open-primary-los-angeles-times\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:00:00","slug":"column-the-time-has-come-to-discard-californias-top-two-open-primary-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/30\/column-the-time-has-come-to-discard-californias-top-two-open-primary-los-angeles-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: The time has come to discard California&#8217;s top-two open primary &#8211; Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNTW1IN2tHSzd2Vm5SWk1CU1JaVHlZU3UwRUlEaXo3NWNxQkNPckxLOEJsT1NHdlFGX0RlT0RfcDFuY2YtX0xRRVpySThlZ2g4OU1hTFV4ckREcW45NXhSUzJIRjBycllRVVpOTEVuZGpqYlFuM3hSRUh5cDhrVlZIX3diRFhjU2ktMFZkbEc3LUctLXFfQ1E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Column: The time has come to discard California&#8217;s top-two open primary<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Los Angeles Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Column: The time has come to discard California&#8217;s top-two open primary&nbsp;&nbsp;Los Angeles Times<\/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-26595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595","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=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}