{"id":13095,"date":"2009-05-31T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_conversation_with_author_simon_schama_about_his_book_the_american_future_\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T02:00:19","slug":"a_conversation_with_author_simon_schama_about_his_book_the_american_future_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13095","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Rose: A Conversation with author Simon Schama about his &#34;The American Future: A History&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLIE ROSE:  All right.  That segues perfectly into this.  So, but I\u2019m interested&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SIMON SCHAMA:  Yes.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLIE ROSE:  Became passionately in love with America as much as the Americans.  What did you fall in love with?<\/p>\n<p>SIMON SCHAMA:  Oh, you know, the division of powers.  Isn\u2019t that the dullest question &#8212; the dullest answer to the most interesting question?  By which I mean the liveliness of American politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/view\/interview\/10333\">Watch it all (just over 30 1\/2 minutes).  Look for the comments on Europe&#8217;s view of this administration and the previous one and for the wonderful Hamlet quote.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLIE ROSE: All right. That segues perfectly into this. So, but I\u2019m interested&#8230; SIMON SCHAMA: Yes. CHARLIE ROSE: Became passionately in love with America as much as the Americans. What did you fall in love with? SIMON SCHAMA: Oh, you<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13095\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,133,616,151,667,666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-president-george-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}