{"id":19530,"date":"2016-04-24T12:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:15:52","slug":"19530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/04\/24\/19530\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m confused. From the point of view of a Democratic Party voter\u2026what&#8217;s the point? Republicans will use it to allocate delegates, but we already had our caucuses to do that (for better or for worse); what is the purpose of the primary?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/75bb170bf2ff4d87aae88b2b337674bc.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m confused. From the point of view of a Democratic Party voter\u2026what&#8217;s the point? Republicans will use it to allocate delegates, but we already had our caucuses to do that (for better or for worse); what is the purpose of the primary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2033,2049],"tags":[2771],"class_list":["post-19530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-the-blog","category-photos","tag-from-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}