{"id":7415,"date":"2010-10-11T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2010-10-09T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T21:05:54","slug":"the-us-has-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/10\/the-us-has-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The US Has Gone Mad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While John le Carr\u00e9 is famous for his spy novels, he wrote a widely read antiwar essay in 2003 titled &#8220;The United States of America Has Gone Mad.&#8221; He reads an excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Um2Cb7oSVU0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While John le Carr\u00e9 is famous for his spy novels, he wrote a widely read antiwar essay in 2003 titled &#8220;The United States of America Has Gone Mad.&#8221; He reads an excerpt. \u201cAmerica has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}