{"id":519,"date":"2005-10-16T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=519"},"modified":"2005-10-16T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T20:31:49","slug":"whigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/10\/16\/whigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Whigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003751\"><\/a>I can&#8217;t quite tell whether the New York Times Magazine piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/16\/magazine\/16essay.html\">connecting the Whig Party with today&#8217;s Conservative Republican Party<\/a> (&#8220;Bush&#8217;s Ancestors&#8221;, Sean Wilentz) is insightful or not, but what I do know is this: The following is an asinine statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>The party&#8217;s (Whig Party) sorry demise helps explain why today&#8217;s Republican conservatives who study history resist any comparison with the Whigs.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t say?  (Another reason, at least publically &#8212; and perhaps this is elitist in my mind: the public has no conception of what the Whig Party was.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t quite tell whether the New York Times Magazine piece connecting the Whig Party with today&#8217;s Conservative Republican Party (&#8220;Bush&#8217;s Ancestors&#8221;, Sean Wilentz) is insightful or not, but what I do know is this: The following is an asinine statement&#8230; The party&#8217;s (Whig Party) sorry demise helps explain why today&#8217;s Republican conservatives who study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}