{"id":315,"date":"2023-11-08T18:47:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=315"},"modified":"2023-11-08T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:47:39","slug":"the-will-of-the-people-and-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"The will of the people and the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Republican Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator and still a GOP leader, lamented that some states allow voters instead of elected leaders to decide major issues, after Ohio residents voted to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion rights. \u201cI don\u2019t know what they were thinking, but that\u2019s why I thank goodness that most of the states in this country don\u2019t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to run a country,\u201d he told Newsmax Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vote Republican, where the will of the people goes to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator and still a GOP leader, lamented that some states allow voters instead of elected leaders to decide major issues, after Ohio residents voted to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion rights. \u201cI don\u2019t know what they were thinking, but that\u2019s why I thank goodness that most of the states in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}