{"id":7079,"date":"2020-10-23T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2020-10-23T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:42:11","slug":"the-troubling-reason-the-electoral-college-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=7079","title":{"rendered":"The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up the U.S. presidential election system: slavery<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4558510\/electoral-college-history-slavery\/\">The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,58,57],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-info","tag-politics","tag-usa","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}