{"id":119,"date":"2005-10-27T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=119"},"modified":"2005-10-27T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:11:13","slug":"when-empires-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"When Empires fall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been ask before why I get so emotional about politics in the U.S.. I own no property there and no money in the banks. I have family and friends living there in various parts of the country, and I worry about about them. But, I&#8217;m safe in a little Republic (who&#8217;s still trying to finding itself).<\/p>\n<p>What bothers me the most is watching The Grand Lady fall. It&#8217;s like watching the Fall of the Roman Empire in Internet time.<\/p>\n<p>It will be ugly, and painful. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been ask before why I get so emotional about politics in the U.S.. I own no property there and no money in the banks. I have family and friends living there in various parts of the country, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=119\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Empires fall.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-patriot-act","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}