{"id":57179,"date":"2026-05-03T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/03\/ronald-smothers-times-reporter-who-covered-protest-and-politics-dies-at-79-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:23:36","slug":"ronald-smothers-times-reporter-who-covered-protest-and-politics-dies-at-79-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/03\/ronald-smothers-times-reporter-who-covered-protest-and-politics-dies-at-79-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Smothers, Times Reporter Who Covered Protest and Politics, Dies at 79 &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE9aNElSYjVXbDZjcmQyc2x0UkF6cFRvQ053djJWYnlQdTlzdEZ6c3E5ZG9WeHdCWlRtOUdOWEpiVGlkZTcyRFdWSTYzXzZXV2dWNzlsX0ZkWTJyZmZFc25zZUFRS2MwUTZvQm4zazJpZ3E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Smothers, Times Reporter Who Covered Protest and Politics, Dies at 79<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Smothers, Times Reporter Who Covered Protest and Politics, Dies at 79&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York 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-57179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57179","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=57179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}