{"id":89375,"date":"2013-04-29T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89375"},"modified":"2013-04-29T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T10:49:07","slug":"democracy-may-have-had-its-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89375","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Democracy May Have Had Its Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323789704578446614144636002.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Kagan, Yale&#8217;s great classicist gives his final lecture, fighting as ever for Western civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had the privilege of taking Professor Kagan&#8217;s intro Classical Civ course as an undergraduate. He was an amazing guy. (Of course, his finest hour was as Big Julie in the Timothy Dwight College production of <em>Guys &amp; Dolls<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Donald Kagan, Yale&#8217;s great classicist gives his final lecture, fighting as ever for Western civilization. I had the privilege of taking Professor Kagan&#8217;s intro Classical Civ course as an undergraduate. He was an amazing guy. (Of course, his finest hour was as Big Julie in the Timothy Dwight College production of Guys &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89377,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375\/revisions\/89377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}