{"id":4383,"date":"2011-05-19T20:34:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2011-05-19T20:34:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:34:53","slug":"partner-loaned-me-his-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"Partner loaned me his copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>of &#8220;How the Irish Saved Civilization&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irish-Saved-Civilization-Hinges-History\/dp\/0385418493\">Thomas Cahill. <\/a> A very, very interesting read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not enough of a history geek to tell you if all the facts and figures contained therein are strictly accurate or in context, but I can tell you, his description of the fall of the roman empire- the barbarians slowly filtering in through porous borders, the citizens slowly being taxed out of existence- is vaguely familiar, somehow&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In all, an excellent read, and I&#8217;m savoring it, by only reading as bedtime approaches. I can only usually get in a handful of  pages before sleep overtakes me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of &#8220;How the Irish Saved Civilization&#8221; by Thomas Cahill. A very, very interesting read. I&#8217;m not enough of a history geek to tell you if all the facts and figures contained therein are strictly accurate or in context, but I can tell you, his description of the fall of the roman empire- the barbarians slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}