{"id":469,"date":"2014-04-25T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-04-26T02:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T02:40:57","slug":"rhodeislandconcon-info-launches-faq-to-address-many-questions-about-state-constitutional-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"RhodeIslandConCon.info launches FAQ to address questions about state constitutional conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RhodeIslandConCon.info has launched an FAQ to address questions about both Rhode Island&#8217;s upcoming state constitutional convention referendum and state constitutional conventions more generally. \u00a0State constitutional conventions are a subject on which popular ignorance is common. \u00a0One poll found that more than 50% of Americans don&#8217;t even know their state has a constitution. \u00a0Only a tiny fraction of Americans have lived during their adult life in a state that has convened a state constitutional convention. \u00a0Of those, most are above the age of 65. \u00a0The last state constitutional convention in the United States was in Rhode Island, one of the smallest states, thirty years ago&#8211;the longest stretch in U.S. history without such a convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RhodeIslandConCon.info has launched an FAQ to address questions about both Rhode Island&#8217;s upcoming state constitutional convention referendum and state constitutional conventions more generally. \u00a0State constitutional conventions are a subject on which popular ignorance is common. \u00a0One poll found that more than 50% of Americans don&#8217;t even know their state has a constitution. \u00a0Only a tiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodeisland.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}