{"id":3964,"date":"2011-09-02T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2011-09-02T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:33:45","slug":"todays-gop-is-not-the-first-minority-to-wield-out-sized-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3964","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s GOP is not the first minority to wield out-sized power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Ken Burns new documentary about <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/01\/purists-gone-wild\/\">Prohibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Anti-Saloon League played an outsized role at the margins, killing off moderates at the primary level, or in legislative deals, and forcing politicians to pledge to their cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Ken Burns new documentary about Prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League played an outsized role at the margins, killing off moderates at the primary level,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}