{"id":57610,"date":"2026-05-04T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/04\/opinion-paul-chan-should-welcome-lawmakers-budget-scrutiny-not-dismiss-it-south-china-morning-post\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:30:07","slug":"opinion-paul-chan-should-welcome-lawmakers-budget-scrutiny-not-dismiss-it-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/04\/opinion-paul-chan-should-welcome-lawmakers-budget-scrutiny-not-dismiss-it-south-china-morning-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Paul Chan should welcome lawmakers\u2019 budget scrutiny, not dismiss it &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwFBVV95cUxNQ2Fkc0xlUGl2WFd6alhTNEhidG1EV0hQckw2bmRaTFhudExER0xmdGxuOXRqMHpXU2VkbGdpbm9jUk44MHlraGU2dlJBX2hUMTNKcEVld2swSDBFSW1Vai01dGgzX29NVEE1cF9kYktoT0M4cWROdF8xRGFGQVVaZEVGenVxN0pkX0dfOGQ5SlR2dkNDaXFMRGk0Z0ZLMS1IWS1fT0dPQjZqQkJsenZjcWVtWXVyWEFNWXZjbkp3djVIM3FYZWVF?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | Paul Chan should welcome lawmakers\u2019 budget scrutiny, not dismiss it<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">South China Morning Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | Paul Chan should welcome lawmakers\u2019 budget scrutiny, not dismiss it&nbsp;&nbsp;South China Morning Post<\/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-57610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610","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=57610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}