{"id":24669,"date":"2017-10-01T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24669"},"modified":"2017-10-01T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T16:21:50","slug":"a-history-of-the-us-gold-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/10\/01\/a-history-of-the-us-gold-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of the US gold standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Business Insider<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/history-of-us-gold-standard-2015-12\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A history of the US gold standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After expressing his own political views about the matter, the author shifts gears.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo instead, I want to lay out the facts of America\u2019s past relationship with gold as a currency and dispel some of the misconceptions people might have.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have not fact checked the article, but the story of our off and on relationship with the gold standard seems plausible to me.  I record a link to this story on my blog because I think it is a good idea to have some perspective on our history with the gold standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider has the article A history of the US gold standard. After expressing his own political views about the matter, the author shifts gears. So instead, I want to lay out the facts of America\u2019s past relationship with gold as a currency and dispel some of the misconceptions people might have. I have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24670,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions\/24670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}