{"id":29738,"date":"2022-02-01T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/talk-of-a-us-breakup-is-nonsense#id31352"},"modified":"2022-02-01T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:38:00","slug":"chris-blattman-a-lot-of-people-are-worried-about-very-bad-things-but-talk-of-a-us-breakup-is-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/chris-blattman-a-lot-of-people-are-worried-about-very-bad-things-but-talk-of-a-us-breakup-is-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Blattman: A lot of people are worried about \u201cvery bad things,\u201d but talk of a US breakup is nonsense."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For America, the greater risk (in my mind) is not violent insurrection, it is the quiet erosion of democratic norms (an actual degrading of American democracy) that never becomes violent, because it almost never makes sense to rebel<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2022\/01\/31\/why-i-do-not-expect-a-civil-war-in-america-and-what-does-worry-me\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Chris Blattman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/talk-of-a-us-breakup-is-nonsense\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        For America, the greater risk (in my mind) is not violent insurrection, it is the quiet erosion of democratic norms (an actual degrading of American democracy) that never becomes violent, because it almost never makes sen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29739,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions\/29739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}