{"id":16258,"date":"2013-04-06T20:37:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T01:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16258"},"modified":"2013-04-06T20:37:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T01:37:46","slug":"the-civil-war-was-fought-over-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/06\/the-civil-war-was-fought-over-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Civil War was fought over slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>Why was the Civil War fought?<\/H3><\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Confederate Heritage and History Month&#8221; so it is a good time to talk about the Civil War.  <em>The Civil War was fought over slavery.<\/em> I don&#8217;t have anything else to say about that right now, but my friend John McKay has written a lengthy blog post explaining this.  <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/its-treason-appreciation-month.html\">Have a look: It&#8217;s Treason Appreciation Month<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why was the Civil War fought? This is &#8220;Confederate Heritage and History Month&#8221; so it is a good time to talk about the Civil War. The Civil War was fought over slavery. I don&#8217;t have anything else to say about that right now, but my friend John McKay has written a lengthy blog post explaining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/06\/the-civil-war-was-fought-over-slavery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Civil War was fought over slavery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1843,3671,570,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4ee","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}