{"id":1792,"date":"2008-07-04T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-07-05T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T06:06:36","slug":"the_gift_that_k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"The Gift That Keeps On Giving &#8211; Yglesias Regretting The American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/009797.php\" target=\"browser\">last time I called him on it<\/a>, he explained that he was simply arguing a counterfactual&#8230;but he <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.typepad.com\/matthew\/2004\/07\/independence_da.html\" target=\"browser\">keeps<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/ex_ante\/\" target=\"browser\">coming<\/a> back to it and <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/mixed_feelings_1.php\" target=\"browser\">picks July 4th for this marvelous sentiment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even <b>awesomer<\/b> had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Way to be patriotic, Matthew!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yglesias regrets the American Revolution &#8211; but don&#8217;t you dare question his patriotism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}