{"id":1734,"date":"2006-01-16T07:36:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2006-01-16T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T14:36:41","slug":"1734","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/16\/1734\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/review\/2006\/01\/16\/foner\/\">What went wrong with Reconstruction<\/a>:  <i>Grant was apparently given to vulgar racial talk in private life, but it&#8217;s reasonable to assume that African-Americans preferred a president who called them ugly names but crushed the Klan to the many who followed, who said polite things about &#8220;the Negro&#8221; but tolerated vicious regimes of white supremacy and racist violence.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterstageright.com\/archive\/articles\/0106\/0106politicspub.htm\">No politics in the pub<\/a>.  And don&#8217;t use &#8220;New Republic&#8221; as the liberal magazine, please.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterstageright.com\/archive\/articles\/0106\/0106politicspub.htm\">The Historical Failure of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What went wrong with Reconstruction: Grant was apparently given to vulgar racial talk in private life, but it&#8217;s reasonable to assume that African-Americans preferred a president who called them ugly names but crushed the Klan to the many who followed, who said polite things about &#8220;the Negro&#8221; but tolerated vicious regimes of white supremacy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erstwhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}