{"id":297355,"date":"2026-06-26T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=297355"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:37:18","slug":"he-went-to-prison-now-he-is-in-charge-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=297355","title":{"rendered":"He Went to Prison. Now He Is in Charge of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Smith spent five years behind bars, turned his life around. Now he is trying to deliver on Trump&#8217;s criminal-justice reforms, reports P.G. Sittenfeld&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/06\/25\/he_went_to_prison_now_he_is_in_charge_of_them_703586.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Smith spent five years behind bars, turned his life around. Now he is trying to deliver on Trump&#8217;s criminal-justice reforms, reports P.G. Sittenfeld&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297355"}],"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=297355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297355"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=297355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}