{"id":46973,"date":"2026-04-21T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/21\/opinion-when-politics-becomes-performance-and-reality-fades-alabama-political-reporter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:41:00","slug":"opinion-when-politics-becomes-performance-and-reality-fades-alabama-political-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/21\/opinion-when-politics-becomes-performance-and-reality-fades-alabama-political-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | When politics becomes performance and reality fades &#8211; Alabama Political Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxNMXBnUnNBUkROc0p0b3NxUGZMeGVaN1k4TFVrNlBxNHlQN3lsNVBUTjVWWUdEZld5bDN5bmNJRzhxV3l1ZG1nT3VyYTctY255a0dmS1lwRDRyY3JCbGhQVVBibWFRdzktZWhLcjRaS091SUFjMzV2N1NJbkJNVzRaM3NCV2JTZnZtdzRWa3Z4bTlvTUppTXpxZDY0M3dSeVU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | When politics becomes performance and reality fades<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Alabama Political Reporter<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | When politics becomes performance and reality fades&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-46973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46973","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=46973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}