{"id":220,"date":"2007-06-03T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_ydstie_the_legacy_of_slavery_and_exceptionalism\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T07:49:00","slug":"john_ydstie_the_legacy_of_slavery_and_exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"John Ydstie: The Legacy of Slavery, and Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 400th anniversary of Jamestown provides an opportunity for Americans to relearn their nation&#8217;s history, and unlearn the sanitized versions of its beginnings that often dominate political discourse. The legacy of American slavery that started in Jamestown undermines the idea of American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=10659959\">Listen to it all from NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 400th anniversary of Jamestown provides an opportunity for Americans to relearn their nation&#8217;s history, and unlearn the sanitized versions of its beginnings that often dominate political discourse. The legacy of American slavery that started in Jamestown undermines the idea<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=220\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}