{"id":15160008,"date":"2026-06-15T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/as-a-black-voter-graham-platners-ethics-dont-bother-me-my-people-cant-afford-to-wait-for-a-perfect-candidate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:10:51","slug":"as-a-black-voter-graham-platners-ethics-dont-bother-me-my-people-cant-afford-to-wait-for-a-perfect-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/as-a-black-voter-graham-platners-ethics-dont-bother-me-my-people-cant-afford-to-wait-for-a-perfect-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"As a Black voter, Graham Platner\u2019s ethics don\u2019t bother me \u2014 my people can\u2019t afford to wait for a perfect candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election \u2014 and that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/graham-platner-ethics-black-voters-20260615.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News \u2013 World \u2013 Philadephia \u2013 inquirer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election \u2014 and that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","post-thumbnail":"","ignition_item":"","ignition_item_lg":"","ignition_article_media":"","ignition_minicart_item":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/usa\/philadelphia\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Philadelphia<\/a>","tag_info":"Philadelphia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15160008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15160009,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160008\/revisions\/15160009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}