{"id":53186,"date":"2026-04-28T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/28\/the-founders-built-safeguards-our-politics-have-rendered-them-useless-the-seattle-times\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:15:02","slug":"the-founders-built-safeguards-our-politics-have-rendered-them-useless-the-seattle-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/28\/the-founders-built-safeguards-our-politics-have-rendered-them-useless-the-seattle-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founders built safeguards. Our politics have rendered them useless &#8211; The Seattle Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxQa3JjMGQyUWFYanZZYnVJT0lWZmhJUVMwOEF0NC1yMmItWk9nN1dmX0JHRURJRzZDTU10anpZT2pjOVdJUFdFaFpJT0Z0RXlUekc1VzhNY3JHTE5XZXhWbHlyUEJ3TjVER3U5dEFCVWMwOTQzOU9IOTlnYnZ5RGZINEpCQm5OSFhiVjREUHlSSEs5RGJkQnV1S1lRWldySzFPeERjLQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The Founders built safeguards. Our politics have rendered them useless<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Seattle Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founders built safeguards. Our politics have rendered them useless&nbsp;&nbsp;The Seattle 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-53186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53186","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=53186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}