{"id":1570,"date":"2009-08-29T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/lessons-of-rome\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T17:36:38","slug":"lessons-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/lessons-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"lessons of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>click to enlarge<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/lessons-of-rome.jpg\" title=\"Lessons of Rome\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/lessons-of-rome.jpg\" alt=\"Lessons of Rome\" width=\"522\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRussell Kirk<\/p>\n<p><em>The American left embraces class warfare to move society toward a mythological equality.\u00a0 The right, however, knows that you cannot improve America by destroying the elements that enabled and built our greatness.\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s agenda enhances class division in America&#8211;increases the size of the class of citizens who use America&#8217;s social welfare net, and decreases the size of the class of citizens who pay for America&#8217;s social welfare net.\u00a0 Whole continents of countries have devoted themselves to the pursuit of the utopia of equal outcome, invariably to their ruin.\u00a0 History proves the futility of this direction. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to enlarge Russell Kirk The American left embraces class warfare to move society toward a mythological equality.\u00a0 The right, however, knows that you cannot improve America by destroying the elements that enabled and built our greatness.\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s agenda enhances class division in America&#8211;increases the size of the class of citizens who use America&#8217;s social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-history","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}