{"id":53236,"date":"2015-05-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53236"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:17:23","slug":"if-you-can-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53236","title":{"rendered":"If You Can Keep It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, at the end of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what the result had been &#8211; a monarchy or a republic.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin famously replied &#8220;A Republic &#8211; if you can keep it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are times I\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/417828\/why-bill-rights-would-never-pass-today-charles-c-w-cooke?utm_content=bufferede81&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">despair of the idea<\/a> that The People of this country actually\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>keep it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, at the end of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what the result had been &#8211; a monarchy or a republic. Franklin famously replied &#8220;A Republic &#8211; if you can keep it&#8221;. There are times I\u00a0despair of the idea that The People of this country actually\u00a0can\u00a0keep it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53251,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236\/revisions\/53251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}