{"id":95,"date":"2021-01-23T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T10:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2021-01-23T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T10:41:37","slug":"why-does-1-5-of-the-population-control-10-of-the-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/2021\/01\/23\/why-does-1-5-of-the-population-control-10-of-the-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does 1.5% of the population control 10% of the US Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Dakota population: 762,062<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Dakota population: 884,659<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wyoming population: 578,759<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idaho population: 1,787,065<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montana population: 1,068,778<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total population of these 5 states: 5, 081, 323. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Percentage of US population (328,239,523): 1.54%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Percentage of US Senate: 10%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do 5 states with 1.5% of the population control 10% of the US Senate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota population: 762,062 South Dakota population: 884,659 Wyoming population: 578,759 Idaho population: 1,787,065 Montana population: 1,068,778 Total population of these 5 states: 5, 081, 323. Percentage of US population (328,239,523): 1.54%. Percentage of US Senate: 10%. Why do 5 states with 1.5% of the population control 10% of the US Senate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}