{"id":53,"date":"2019-01-12T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T03:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/?p=53"},"modified":"2019-01-12T22:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T03:54:39","slug":"discordant-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/2019\/01\/12\/discordant-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Discordant Democracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 4, 2019, I received the first copies of my book. It was a surreal experience. The title seems apropos for the times we are living in, as the government shutdown has officially become the longest ever and neither side is listening to existential problems in the US and globally. North Carolina&#8217;s 9th congressional district race remains unresolved. The &#8220;shining city on the hill&#8221; is not making a stellar case for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 4, 2019, I received the first copies of my book. It was a surreal experience. The title seems apropos for the times we are living in, as the government shutdown has officially become the longest ever and neither side is listening to existential problems in the US and globally. North Carolina&#8217;s 9th congressional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/2019\/01\/12\/discordant-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discordant Democracy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/justinpatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}