{"id":658721,"date":"2026-08-27T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658721"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:24:48","slug":"altadenas-post-fire-rebuild-proves-you-can-have-woke-or-effective-leaders-but-not-both-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658721","title":{"rendered":"Altadena\u2019s Post-Fire Rebuild Proves You Can Have Woke Or Effective Leaders But Not Both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1613-1200x675.jpeg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"An American flag and a Bible verse about faith and endurance stand in front of a burned-out lot in Altadena, California.\" \/>Barger speaks bluntly about the quality of the state&#8217;s insurance commissioner. &#8216;When you politicize an office like this,&#8217; she says, &#8216;this is what you get.&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1613-1200x675.jpeg\" title=\"Altadena\u2019s Post-Fire Rebuild Proves You Can Have Woke Or Effective Leaders But Not Both\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barger speaks bluntly about the quality of the state&#8217;s insurance commissioner. &#8216;When you politicize an office like this,&#8217; she says, &#8216;this is what you get.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}