{"id":6449,"date":"2011-07-02T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T00:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:33:32","slug":"history-lesson-for-micehlle-bachman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/02\/history-lesson-for-micehlle-bachman\/","title":{"rendered":"History Lesson For Michelle Bachman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his blog <em>Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong<\/em>, Brad Delong offers a <a title=\"Brad DeLong's history lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2011\/07\/samuel-johnson-why-do-we-hear-the-loudest-yelps-for-liberty-from-the-masters-of-negroes-department.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>history lesson for Michell Bachman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He ends with the statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms Bachmann can easily correct the record, and sound smart to boot, by insisting on a distinction between those founders who really did fight tirelessly to end slavery and those who fought tirelessly to tilt the young country&#8217;s balance of power toward states filled with human chattel who could not vote. And she ought to stop name-checking John Quincy Adams and start agitating for the eternal glory of John Jay. Or Gouverneur Morris. He had a peg leg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his blog Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong, Brad Delong offers a history lesson for Michell Bachman. He ends with the statement: Ms Bachmann can easily correct the record, and sound smart to boot, by insisting on a distinction between those founders who really [&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-6449","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\/6449","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=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}