{"id":234151,"date":"2024-03-02T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T23:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=234151"},"modified":"2024-03-02T18:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T23:37:50","slug":"news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=234151","title":{"rendered":"News24 | OPINION | Mike Pothier and Marlene Barnard: Happy to let other people run your life for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite making choices everyday on a variety of things, South Africans are quite happy to let other people make choices for us when it comes to politics, write Mike Pothier and Marlene Barnard<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/opinions\/columnists\/guestcolumn\/opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-20240203\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite making choices everyday on a variety of things, South Africans are quite happy to let other people make choices for us when it comes to politics, write Mike Pothier and Marlene Barnard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234151"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=234151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}