{"id":43,"date":"2002-02-20T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2002-02-21T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=43"},"modified":"2004-10-18T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T03:23:01","slug":"abraham-the-afghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Abraham the Afghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/hanson\/hanson020102.shtml\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>, in an otherwise splendid defense of Americanism and the melting pot, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMr. Karzai needs something like the U.S. Constitution and an Abraham Lincoln a lot more than he needs $15 billion.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would this be the same Lincoln who said violent secession was legitimate but peaceful secession was not, whose lifelong dream was to complete American unity by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobran.com\/columns\/2002\/020117.shtml\">deporting the Negros<\/a>, who turned what might be friendship (as between us and Britain) into generations-long resentment?  Or some other Abraham Lincoln?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson, in an otherwise splendid defense of Americanism and the melting pot, says: Mr. Karzai needs something like the U.S. Constitution and an Abraham Lincoln a lot more than he needs $15 billion. Would this be the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}