{"id":2443651,"date":"2019-05-01T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/civics-101\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:48:26","slug":"civics-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/civics-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Civics 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The geniuses who wrote our original constitution intentionally designed a system with power divided many ways. Between the federal government and the states. Among Congress, the executive, and the judicial. Between the House and the Senate. Between \u201cfactions\u201d (parties).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">They did this to prevent tyranny concentrated in one power center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Do Americans understand this?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/civics-101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The geniuses who wrote our original constitution intentionally designed a system with power divided many ways. Between the federal government and the states. Among Congress, the executive, and the judicial. Between the House and the Senate. Between \u201cfactions\u201d (parties). They did this to prevent tyranny concentrated in one power center. Do Americans understand this? Maurice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 14:39:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}