{"id":18217,"date":"2015-09-19T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T10:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18217"},"modified":"2015-09-19T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T10:38:29","slug":"the-history-of-13-countries-in-15-words-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18217","title":{"rendered":"The history of 13 countries in 15 words or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A web site issued the challenge of summarising the history of a country in a sentence. The offerings are amusing and sometimes insightful.<\/p>\n<p>For the United States:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Freedom*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*terms and conditions may apply.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">For the United Kingdom: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">&#8220;Had the largest empire ever, but lost it due to drinking too much tea.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">You can check out 11 other nations <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/shortest-possible-world-history\/gallery\/1\/\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">. If your country is not mentioned, perhaps you&#8217;d like to offer a suggestion for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A web site issued the challenge of summarising the history of a country in a sentence. The offerings are amusing and sometimes insightful. For the United States: &#8220;Freedom* *terms and conditions may apply.&#8221; For the United Kingdom: &#8220;Had the largest empire ever, but lost it due to drinking too much tea.&#8221; You can check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18217","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\/18217","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=18217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18230,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions\/18230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}