{"id":3347,"date":"2016-11-13T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sociology.kpi.ua\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:22:38","slug":"the-troubling-reason-the-electoral-college-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/uncategorized\/the-troubling-reason-the-electoral-college-exists.html","title":{"rendered":"The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/constitution.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3348\" alt=\"Signing The US Constitution\" src=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/constitution.jpeg\" width=\"550\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/constitution.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/constitution-300x193.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up the U.S. presidential election system: slavery<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4558510\/electoral-college-history-slavery\/\">www.time.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up the U.S. presidential election system: slavery www.time.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sociology.kpi.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}