Unable to use flask.g to access variables in other functions

I'm trying to use flask.g to store variables that can be accessed in other functions, but I don't seem to be doing something correctly. The application generates the following error when I try to access g.name: AttributeError: '_RequestGlobals' object has no attribute 'name'.

The documentation for flask.g says:

Just store on this whatever you want. For example a database connection or the user that is currently logged in.

Here's a complete, minimal example that illustrates the error that I receive when trying to access the variable outside of the function it was created in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from flask import Flask, render_template_string, request, redirect, url_for, g
from wtforms import Form, TextField

application = app = Flask('wsgi')

@app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def index():
    form = LoginForm(request.form)

    if request.method == 'POST' and form.validate():
        name =  form.name.data
        g.name = name

        # Need to create an instance of a class and access that in another route
        #g.api = CustomApi(name)

        return redirect(url_for('get_posts'))

    else:

        return render_template_string(template_form, form=form)

@app.route('/posts', methods=['GET'])
def get_posts():
    # Need to access the instance of CustomApi here
    #api = g.api
    name = g.name
    return render_template_string(name_template, name=name)


class LoginForm(Form):
    name = TextField('Name')

template_form = """
{% block content %}
<h1>Enter your name</h1>

<form method="POST" action="/">
    <div>{{ form.name.label }} {{ form.name() }}</div><br>
    <button type="submit" class="btn">Submit</button>    
</form>
{% endblock %}

"""

name_template =