{"id":72789,"date":"2026-05-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/21\/opinion-when-removal-becomes-a-political-tool-democracy-suffers-the-cap-times\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:00:00","slug":"opinion-when-removal-becomes-a-political-tool-democracy-suffers-the-cap-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/21\/opinion-when-removal-becomes-a-political-tool-democracy-suffers-the-cap-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | When removal becomes a political tool, democracy suffers &#8211; The Cap Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi7AFBVV95cUxNbU92aG1MeU9YZWxnSEVEWEhzamkyV1RDVUdPanppeFFRc2xGZUNhNDRKSFZESVA0UDhwamxpX2YtUVZRb3cxdmRRZ0tsR2JYeXJQcU50ZVh5U3A3WjF3WU5sV0F6MHRfR3QwOGdQUEFQbE9ZVld4cmM5YWlCYWRjV1pWT3c0MVRBYUhQcVFQQjltQnBJVXdsTkxiZ1hEV0RDVlNvcXk2akctVHZWQ3BlSjBvNVV3V25oVzYyd0RPRDJaY1B6aDN3eERUVXV0NWY4T0lLQzBvRF9mWVp4OHZvczFLdGVBbmR4a3BidQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | When removal becomes a political tool, democracy suffers<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Cap Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | When removal becomes a political tool, democracy suffers&nbsp;&nbsp;The Cap Times<\/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-72789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72789","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=72789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}