{"id":471877,"date":"2026-09-22T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:34:19","slug":"forums-are-a-public-service-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471877\/","title":{"rendered":"Forums Are A Public Service | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m grateful to the Coronado Democratic Club and the other civic organizations hosting candidate forums this season. This is a public service the Club has provided for decades.<\/p>\n<p>To the candidates: there is no substitute for standing in front of your neighbors and taking questions without a script. It\u2019s the oldest technology in democracy, and it still works!<\/p>\n<p>VOL. 116, NO. 37 &#8211; Sept. 16, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m grateful to the Coronado Democratic Club and the other civic organizations hosting candidate forums this season. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-471877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}