{"id":7524,"date":"2012-09-21T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:27:34","slug":"the-gops-version-of-american-history-all-ready-to-go-into-one-of-those-texas-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7524","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#8217;s version of American history all ready to go into one of those Texas history books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/shouts\/2012\/09\/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html\">long list<\/a> of quotes in the New Yorker. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first historical reference in chronological order:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: &#8220;The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.&#8221; Rick Perry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and here&#8217;s the last: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2011: President George W. Bush kills Osama bin Laden: &#8220;Thanks to George Bush. Because if Obama had his way we wouldn&#8217;t have gotten bin Laden, you know that.&#8221; Sean Hannity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/shouts\/2012\/09\/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html#ixzz278fInNpx\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/shouts\/2012\/09\/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html#ixzz278fInNpx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a very long list of quotes in the New Yorker. Here&#8217;s the first historical reference in chronological order: 1500s: The American Revolutionary War&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20151,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/20151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}