{"id":9047,"date":"2012-07-30T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2012-07-30T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T11:38:52","slug":"why-is-america-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9047","title":{"rendered":"Why is America in decline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent holiday in the United States [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/USAtrip\">here<\/a>], I read an fascinating book entitled <em>&#8220;Time To Start Thinking: America And The Spectre Of Decline&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TTST\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Today the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jul\/29\/world-as-seen-by-republicans\">an article<\/a> by Gary Younge, British but resident in Chicago, with an interesting take on this issue. He comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; &#8230; while liberals are more likely to see the roots of this crisis as domestic \u2013 growing economic inequalities, religious zealotry, corporatisation of media and politics \u2013 conservatives are increasingly keen to perceive the primary threat as external: immigrants, Islam, foreigners and foreign trade.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another illustration of the polarisation of American politics &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent holiday in the United States [my account here], I read an fascinating book entitled &#8220;Time To Start Thinking: America And The Spectre Of Decline&#8221; [my review here]. Today the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; has an article by Gary Younge, British but resident in Chicago, with an interesting take on this issue. He comments: &#8221; &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047","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=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9056,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}