{"id":166,"date":"2004-01-26T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=166"},"modified":"2004-01-26T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T16:42:22","slug":"the-robustness-of-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"The Robustness of American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2004\/01\/Americanrobustness.shtml\">essay<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\">Den Beste<\/a> rebutting the old canard that America shouldn&#8217;t try to force democracy on the rest of the world.  The fuzzy-wuzzies just aren&#8217;t ready for it, dontcha know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great essay by Den Beste rebutting the old canard that America shouldn&#8217;t try to force democracy on the rest of the world. The fuzzy-wuzzies just aren&#8217;t ready for it, dontcha know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}