{"id":46932,"date":"2026-04-21T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/21\/opinion-absentee-voting-diminishes-election-day-as-a-ritual-of-democracy-star-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:00:19","slug":"opinion-absentee-voting-diminishes-election-day-as-a-ritual-of-democracy-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/21\/opinion-absentee-voting-diminishes-election-day-as-a-ritual-of-democracy-star-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Absentee voting diminishes Election Day as a ritual of democracy &#8211; Star Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxQdVdGd1VGRmt6eld4ekFGM0pZRkZIVlkxNGJ2N0N5bE10ZkJfQ29PNzBNUk54WE9KSkcyQlRmbHJBdzRIU0d6aExERWRtc252eDlxQ1dfN0lKdm84cTdSbXhvcElYbkRQbjl5aHFvZFJLX0VBLW4wUUo1ZE9XdGtvOGcwU09mcUpDUUVfb0JlXzF3YUh0MUE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | Absentee voting diminishes Election Day as a ritual of democracy<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Star Tribune<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | Absentee voting diminishes Election Day as a ritual of democracy&nbsp;&nbsp;Star Tribune<\/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-46932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46932","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=46932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}