{"id":1239,"date":"2016-11-08T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:44:00","slug":"presidential-election-sparks-call-for-us-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Election Sparks Call for US Monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The unruly, convention-breaking 2016 US presidential election – all 546 days of it – between two highly unpopular candidates selected as a result of people voting has led some to call for the US to become a hereditary monarchy. WfaAR comments: one swallow doesn’t make a summer. Monarchies have had plenty of problems of their own in the last century, including poor candidates for an inherited job. If you have a commitment to democracy, then education about how it works; and individual responsibility and voting should be a priority. However, this article by Nikolai Tolstoy of the International Monarchist League in The New York Times is thought-provoking for anyone serious about the Australian Republic. Click on link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The unruly, convention-breaking 2016 US presidential election – all 546 days of it – between two highly unpopular candidates selected as a result of people voting has led some to call for the US to become a hereditary monarchy. WfaAR comments: one swallow doesn’t make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","wpcat-16-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}