{"id":73,"date":"2018-01-02T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:34:08","slug":"north-carolina-is-no-longer-classified-as-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"at_zurlpreview\">\n<h2>North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"display: none;\">North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy<\/h3>\n<p class=\"imgp\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/9getry-keyjill\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1140\/keyjill\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/9getry-keyjill\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1140\/keyjill\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgd\">In the just released EIP report, North Carolina\u00e2\u0080\u0099s overall electoral integrity score of 58\/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, North Carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table \u00e2\u0080\u0093 a deeply flawed, partly-free, democracy that is only slightly ahead of the failed democracies that constitute much of the developing world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgs\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article122593759.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"external\">www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article122593759.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy In the just released EIP report, North Carolina\u00e2\u0080\u0099s overall electoral integrity score of 58\/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=73\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}