{"id":33338,"date":"2026-04-07T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/07\/columbus-council-elections-are-broken-but-ward-system-a-bad-idea-opinion-the-columbus-dispatch\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:43:00","slug":"columbus-council-elections-are-broken-but-ward-system-a-bad-idea-opinion-the-columbus-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/07\/columbus-council-elections-are-broken-but-ward-system-a-bad-idea-opinion-the-columbus-dispatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus\u2019 council elections are broken but ward system a bad idea | Opinion &#8211; The Columbus Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxQOVhibVRkRjU0a3NNOFBxTUFnWEwtU3YtaXF0TUNMTkxnNGdlUmotaVh5MmZpYV9nMU1lMk1pUFdOYVA4M1RSWnVmV1N5eWFLNHp1TkxNT2NHanZkTEprNXJQRnRSUmdmVVBVeThESXZOUmFiTzRYU0h3eENSYWRBYWNzMm5memM3ODh0UnNmMlNZQWxSTzRKX1FtMWhJS0RLMlBvU1FVNGlSQ09BcjNrWlVyak9GVmdWSVhZRE55eUI2QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus\u2019 council elections are broken but ward system a bad idea | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Columbus Dispatch<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus\u2019 council elections are broken but ward system a bad idea | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;The Columbus Dispatch<\/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-33338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338","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=33338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}