{"id":257,"date":"2015-12-27T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:34:31","slug":"what-is-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2015\/12\/27\/what-is-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A definition I&#8217;ve come across several times, from H.L. Mencken:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The level of tomfoolery I&#8217;m seeing from several presidential candidates makes me suspect that we will indeed be getting it good and hard.<\/p>\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/H-L-Mencken\/article-supplemental-information\">Britannica Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A definition I&#8217;ve come across several times, from H.L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. The level of tomfoolery I&#8217;m seeing from several presidential candidates makes me suspect that we will indeed be getting it good and hard. Source:&nbsp;Britannica Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,60],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democracy","tag-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-49","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}