{"id":1489,"date":"2004-11-05T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2008-06-08T00:36:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T08:36:40","slug":"secession-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"secession, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobran.com\/columns\/2004\/041007.shtml\">Joe Sobran&#8217;s view of Lincoln<\/a> is more charitable than that of (say) Neil Smith or Thomas DiLorenzo, <ins datetime=\"2008-06-08T08:36:01+00:00\">not that that&#8217;s saying much<\/ins>, but he still calls the war a tragic blunder.<\/p>\n<p>Given the timing of that column (October 7), I wonder whether Sobran had the same thought as I, that the recent polarization of our politics should make talk of secession more palatable to the mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Sobran&#8217;s view of Lincoln is more charitable than that of (say) Neil Smith or Thomas DiLorenzo, not that that&#8217;s saying much, but he still calls the war a tragic blunder. Given the timing of that column (October 7), I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}