{"id":38176,"date":"2026-04-10T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/10\/opinion-can-we-please-stop-electing-unserious-people-to-do-serious-jobs-alabama-political-reporter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:22:00","slug":"opinion-can-we-please-stop-electing-unserious-people-to-do-serious-jobs-alabama-political-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/10\/opinion-can-we-please-stop-electing-unserious-people-to-do-serious-jobs-alabama-political-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Can we please stop electing unserious people to do serious jobs? &#8211; Alabama Political Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxNMmdONjNPUHNOTWpYNDhMLUVlMS1IY2tfZm5KZVdUWVl3dVVsbTZld2JxZVpBTWxCRHVqSEhuRi1QUXM1bUZyNU1wVWU0VGZkcV95Rk0tQ2kyOXFSdEhjMWJaVTh1NkROZUtqV09RYmR5N2tTWDFSbDlHS0s5VlZYbFFHYjJiUmxkS1Y3ZVBWVHVhc3czSzFwak1FS3ZISWR1QTRVazVmS3FnM3VtTVhZ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | Can we please stop electing unserious people to do serious jobs?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Alabama Political Reporter<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | Can we please stop electing unserious people to do serious jobs?&nbsp;&nbsp;Alabama Political Reporter<\/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-38176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38176","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=38176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}