{"id":41475,"date":"2013-12-10T02:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_myth_of_americas_decline_why_the_declinists_are_wrong_again\/"},"modified":"2013-12-10T02:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:44:45","slug":"the_myth_of_americas_decline_why_the_declinists_are_wrong_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41475","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of America&#39;s Decline: Why the &#39;Declinists&#39; Are Wrong (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become conventional wisdom in recent years that America is in decline, perhaps terminally so.<\/p>\n<p>Josef Joffe, a professor at Stanford and editor of the German weekly magazine Die Zeit, turns this mindset on its head in his new book: The Myth of America&#8217;s Decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cyclical phenomenon,&#8221; Joffe says of the predictions of America&#8217;s decline. But just as &#8220;declinists&#8221; were wrong about Russia in the 1950s and Japan in the 1980s, current forecasts about America playing second fiddle to China will also prove wrong, he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/the-myth-of-america-s-decline--152512864.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become conventional wisdom in recent years that America is in decline, perhaps terminally so. Josef Joffe, a professor at Stanford and editor of the German weekly magazine Die Zeit, turns this mindset on its head in his new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41475\">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":[39,50,209,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475","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=41475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}