{"id":11613,"date":"2015-09-07T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-slavery-also-left-another-legacy-in-southern\/"},"modified":"2015-09-07T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T03:57:00","slug":"but-slavery-also-left-another-legacy-in-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-slavery-also-left-another-legacy-in-southern\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But slavery also left another legacy in Southern conservatives\u2019 devotion to small government and low taxes. Less obviously connected to slavery than race, conservatives dress up those ideals in a seductive rhetoric of \u201cfreedom.\u201d However, ever since slavery began, they have perniciously worked to protect the interests of the wealthy elite at the expense of the common good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/160405\">From the Folks Who Brought You the Civil War: The Political Legacy of Slavery<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But slavery also left another legacy in Southern conservatives\u2019 devotion to small government and low taxes. Less obviously connected to slavery than race, conservatives dress up those ideals in a seductive rhetoric of \u201cfreedom.\u201d However, ever since slavery began, they have perniciously worked to protect the interests of the wealthy elite at the expense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-31j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}