{"id":318,"date":"2011-06-09T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-06-09T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:40:38","slug":"downside-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/06\/downside-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Downside of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is just a thought&#8230; or two about this subject.<\/p>\n<p>In principle democracy is a good thing but what happens if the majority of people are idiots that don&#8217;t know or care about the greater good? You end up with with a bigger mess than any non-democratic system can create&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is just a thought&#8230; or two about this subject. In principle democracy is a good thing but what happens if the majority of people are idiots that don&#8217;t know or care about the greater good? You end up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/06\/downside-of-democracy\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[19,18,29],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-funny","tag-people","tag-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}