{"id":7030,"date":"2026-03-09T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/09\/ben-sasse-is-a-true-statesman-we-need-more-like-him-opinion-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:10:23","slug":"ben-sasse-is-a-true-statesman-we-need-more-like-him-opinion-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/09\/ben-sasse-is-a-true-statesman-we-need-more-like-him-opinion-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sasse is a true statesman. We need more like him. | Opinion &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxQWEpic0pnNC1SQWt2SzVIS3RwVVktMVdJTTF0bWx1cXktOEhJZlM1TDlzSnlpOVdtNHAzdTVFcXR4YlplN3ZmalhkS05oYUcwblZnUUxkNjRfd0s0d1RELUdmZEZhVWcwaFQ4OTRzWTNRemhPUFEwMFFjei0tSkRBbktTRkgtckNTUHBIWDhVVEJoOHZaVndLVkhxX1prenkwZVRUY0t6ZFlaUnpwZHoxNmtJT2Q?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Sasse is a true statesman. We need more like him. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sasse is a true statesman. We need more like him. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/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-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","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=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}