{"id":457152,"date":"2022-01-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/direct-democracy-sortition-populism-voting-citizens-assembly"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T15:00:00","slug":"what-if-we-made-democracy-more-democratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/04\/what-if-we-made-democracy-more-democratic\/","title":{"rendered":"What If We Made Democracy&#8230; More Democratic?"},"content":{"rendered":"When politicians seem increasingly out of touch with the average person, perhaps the average person should make decisions instead.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/direct-democracy-sortition-populism-voting-citizens-assembly\">In These Times<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When politicians seem increasingly out of touch with the average person, perhaps the average person should make decisions instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458408,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457152\/revisions\/458408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}