{"id":4883,"date":"2010-10-23T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2010-10-23T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:35:31","slug":"thaddeus-russell-why-i-got-fired-from-teaching-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/23\/thaddeus-russell-why-i-got-fired-from-teaching-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Thaddeus Russell: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a title=\"Thaddeus Russell article\" href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/132675.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thaddeus Russell: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History<\/strong><\/a> on the George Mason University&#8217;s <em>History News Network<\/em> web site.<\/p>\n<p>If I had a category, &#8220;And Now For Something Completely Different&#8221;, I would place this item in it. In describing what got him fired, the article has the following to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I showed them that during the American Revolution drunkards, laggards, prostitutes, and pirates pioneered many of the freedoms and pleasures we now cherish &#8212; including non-marital sex, interracial socializing, dancing, shopping, divorce, and the weekend &#8212; and that the Founding Fathers, in the name of democracy, opposed them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found Thaddeus Russell: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History on the George Mason University&#8217;s History News Network web site. If I had a category, &#8220;And Now For Something Completely Different&#8221;, I would place this item in it. In describing what got him fired, the article has the following to say: I showed [&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-4883","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\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}