{"id":3192,"date":"2018-06-06T22:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T03:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2018-06-08T22:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T03:21:30","slug":"fake-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"Fake Wars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in fake history: just days before the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowling_Green_massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowling Green Massacre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/06\/politics\/war-of-1812-donald-trump-justin-trudeau-tariff\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada invaded Washington DC and razed our federal buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Historical ignorance (and sure it&#8217;s scary that Trump is both so ignorant of history AND unwilling to accept counsel), aside &#8212; so what if Canada *did* burn down the White House in 1814. Say Canada *were* a country aligned with England, and they participated in the war of 1812 by invading the US and burning DC. How does that make Canada a national security threat TODAY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in fake history: just days before the Bowling Green Massacre, Canada invaded Washington DC and razed our federal buildings. Historical ignorance (and sure it&#8217;s scary that Trump is both so ignorant of history AND unwilling to accept counsel), aside &#8212; so what if Canada *did* burn down the White House in 1814. Say &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[84,364],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-alternativefact","tag-ignorance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}