{"id":670,"date":"2019-08-30T21:31:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/antebellum-rhetoric"},"modified":"2019-08-30T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:39:44","slug":"antebellum-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/antebellum-rhetoric","title":{"rendered":"Antebellum Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Fairbanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2019\/08\/29\/conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too\/\">excellent essay in The Washington Post<\/a> on how so-called <em>reasonable conservatives<\/em> wrap themselves in the same rhetoric used by defenders of the Confederacy before, during and after the US Civil War:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Principles like freedom and equality have functioned, through time, as the American immune system, warding off sickness. But they can also be co-opted. As they were more than 150 years ago, ideas like freedom of speech, diversity and respect are now being used to turn opponents of conservatism into helpless hosts, transmitting its ideas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Fairbanks excellent essay in The Washington Post on how so-called reasonable conservatives wrap themselves in the same rhetoric used by defenders of the Confederacy before, during and after the US Civil War: Principles like freedom and equality have functioned, through time, as the American immune system, warding off sickness. But they can also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}