{"id":7025,"date":"2021-01-08T06:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2563727aa73ab4148e03caf42ee1d3e1"},"modified":"2021-01-08T06:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:39:01","slug":"dont-sweep-the-ugly-truth-about-us-democracy-under-the-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/08\/dont-sweep-the-ugly-truth-about-us-democracy-under-the-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t sweep the ugly truth about US \u2018democracy\u2019 under the carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>As\u00a0the Capitol Hill 'invasion' by MAGA goes sour and Australian MPs rush to get their stories straight,\u00a0let's not sweep the\u00a0ugly truth about US 'democracy\u2019 under the carpet, writes <strong>Pip Hinman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/content\/dont-sweep-ugly-truth-about-us-democracy-under-carpet\">Green Left<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As\u00a0the Capitol Hill &#8216;invasion&#8217; by MAGA goes sour and Australian MPs rush to get their stories straight,\u00a0let&#8217;s not sweep the\u00a0ugly truth about US &#8216;democracy\u2019 under the carpet, writes Pip Hinman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"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\/7025"}],"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\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}