{"id":4091,"date":"2011-09-29T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2011-09-29T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:06:50","slug":"giving-peace-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4091","title":{"rendered":"Giving peace a chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\"> little optimism <\/a>from <a href=\"Believe it or not, the world of the past was much worse. Violence has been in decline for thousands of years, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in the existence of our species.\">Steven Pinker<\/a>. He&#8217;s not the first to make the argument. Having recently watched the great anti-war movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050825\/\">Paths of Glory<\/a> again I can only hope he is right. That might mean we should start worrying more about a meteor strike or a contagion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydish.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e2014e8be7ac25970d-550wi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little optimism from Steven Pinker. He&#8217;s not the first to make the argument. Having recently watched the great anti-war movie Paths of Glory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}