{"id":460,"date":"2023-11-28T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:15:52","slug":"the-background-of-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"The Background of the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">A friend of mine recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/profcj.org\/american-revolution-part-i\/\">this episode<\/a> of the Dangerous History Podcast, and I thought it was really interesting. It&#8217;s the first in a mini-series talking about the American Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">One point made by Prof. CJ is that there was a peculiar strain of religious belief, held more by the common people of the colonies than the aristocratic founders, that helped move the revolution forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Basically, the belief developed that the failure to defend one&#8217;s natural rights was a betrayal of God&#8217;s grace, as manifested in oneself. There is a lot of good info in the podcast, but this point was something I hadn&#8217;t heard before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There are a few episodes in the mini-series, but I&#8217;ve only listened to this one so far. Worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recommended this episode of the Dangerous History Podcast, and I thought it was really interesting. It&#8217;s the first in a mini-series talking about the American Revolution. One point made by Prof. CJ is that there was a peculiar strain of religious belief, held more by the common people of the colonies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[153,154,19,155,17],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","tag-american-revolution","tag-dangerous-history","tag-liberty","tag-natural-rights","tag-secession"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dan-mall-JsquWCJ4h9Y-unsplash-cr.jpg?fit=930%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}