{"id":903,"date":"2003-05-13T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=903"},"modified":"2005-08-05T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T05:20:23","slug":"it-couldnt-happen-there-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"it couldn&#8217;t happen there, either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/0316-08.htm\">When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History<\/a> (link from David Mankins) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,&#8221; he [the head of government] proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. &#8220;This fire,&#8221; he said, his voice trembling with emotion, &#8220;is the beginning.&#8221; He used the occasion &ndash; &#8220;a sign from God,&#8221; he called it &ndash; to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History (link from David Mankins) &#8220;You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,&#8221; he [the head of government] proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=903\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}