{"id":55275,"date":"2026-04-30T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/30\/im-signing-off-but-readers-need-to-stay-on-democracy-depends-on-it-opinion-news-observer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:51:00","slug":"im-signing-off-but-readers-need-to-stay-on-democracy-depends-on-it-opinion-news-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/30\/im-signing-off-but-readers-need-to-stay-on-democracy-depends-on-it-opinion-news-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m signing off, but readers need to stay on. Democracy depends on it | Opinion &#8211; News &amp; Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTE1ZOWxKSEx6Mm13bmZmczhCWC03ZzNxcjNwb2dMZ2RRQ0dMbGgtTVRUc2ZFWk5JNFlKckU0X3V6Z1V3Z0RESmtxVTB4WVhUNkZsYjN5X3RGSG9KdjBIbEhFakpvV3IxQnlkZXfSAWpBVV95cUxNOVJMX3RfaXhoSk55SUFMaXNrS2pqNTVZLWNfYXNJaV8tX1hIUU83WXZRS3ZLV0dKQm5zWTNUSHhyb3dnMTNKQnI0MjM3VjRsYzdHc29QQkdzc1Vnd2I1V2pvRGprRWFQamx3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m signing off, but readers need to stay on. Democracy depends on it | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">News &amp; Observer<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m signing off, but readers need to stay on. Democracy depends on it | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;News &amp; Observer<\/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-55275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275","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=55275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}