{"id":466716,"date":"2022-01-12T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6f079781544b9c9fa2c8b5edbce2178e"},"modified":"2022-01-12T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:40:49","slug":"ep-556-will-joe-biden-the-democratic-party-actually-protect-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/12\/ep-556-will-joe-biden-the-democratic-party-actually-protect-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 556 &#8211; Will Joe Biden &amp; The Democratic Party Actually Protect Voting Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yesterday Biden gave a very important speech on voting rights - stating emphatically that he is now for ending the filibuster to protect voting rights. While this is a necessary shift for Biden, a speech is not a policy. A speech is not a vote. And it remains to be seen if the Democrats in the Senate will do what they need to do to protect and advance voting rights nationwide. Let me tell you where we are, where we aren't, and what I think will happen next.<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/8011633\">The Breakdown with Shaun King<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Biden gave a very important speech on voting rights &#8211; stating emphatically that he is now for ending the filibuster to protect voting rights. While this is a necessary shift for Biden, a speech is not a policy. A speech is not a vote. And it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"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\/466716"}],"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\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978218,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466716\/revisions\/978218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}