{"id":13950,"date":"2024-06-16T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13950"},"modified":"2024-06-16T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:44:13","slug":"the-enormous-stakes-of-indias-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13950","title":{"rendered":"The enormous stakes of India\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;distilled down to its essence, the election is about one really big thing: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2024\/1\/27\/24049025\/india-ayodhya-ram-mandir-narendra-modi-bjp-babri-masjid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">democracy-threatening quest<\/a>&nbsp;to revolutionize the Indian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/editorcharts\/INDIA-ELECTION-POLL\/0H001PBNC5P8\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If the polling<\/a>&nbsp;is even close to right, he&#8217;ll win a mandate to finish what he started.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/351497\/india-election-2024-explainer-narendra-modi-bjp\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/351497\/india-election-2024-explainer-narendra-modi-bjp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;distilled down to its essence, the election is about one really big thing: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s democracy-threatening quest to revolutionize the Indian state.<br \/>\nIf the polling is even close to right, he&#8217;ll win a mandate to finish what he started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/351497\/india-election-2024-explainer-narendra-modi-bjp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[372,83,494,509],"class_list":["post-13950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-election","tag-india","tag-modi","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13951,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions\/13951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}