{"id":1442,"date":"2009-06-08T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2009-06-08T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T12:42:21","slug":"who-was-thomas-paine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Who was Thomas Paine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably he was the Englishman who has had the most influence on world affairs while combining the least recognition among today&#8217;s English. He played a key intellectual role in both the American Revolution and the French Revolution and can be seen as one of the founders of the modern democratic state.<br \/>\nToday is the 200th anniversary of his death.<br \/>\nYou can read his Wikipedia profile <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Paine\">here<\/a> and a BBC online anniversary feature <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8089115.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably he was the Englishman who has had the most influence on world affairs while combining the least recognition among today&#8217;s English. He played a key intellectual role in both the American Revolution and the French Revolution and can be seen as one of the founders of the modern democratic state. Today is the 200th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}