{"id":17638,"date":"2025-05-05T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:59:22","slug":"first-they-came-for-the-samnites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17638","title":{"rendered":"First They Came for the Samnites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sulla broke republican norms in an attempt to make Rome great again, paving the road for Julius and Augustus to later end the Roman Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sulla had purges, starting with the most vulnerable. People didn&#8217;t join together to stop Sulla until it was too late, hoping that Sulla would stop after Sulla was done persecuting other groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First They Came for the Samnites\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eh4LLvpr-7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulla broke republican norms in an attempt to make Rome great again, paving the road for Julius and Augustus to later end the Roman Republic. <\/p>\n<p>Sulla had purges, starting with the most vulnerable. People didn&#8217;t join together to stop Sulla until it was too late, hoping that Sulla would stop after Sulla was done persecuting other groups. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eh4LLvpr-7g<\/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":[1104,864,431,660,1638,860,770,859,1475,858,201,661],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-due-process","tag-fall-of-the-roman-republic","tag-history","tag-roman-republic","tag-romans","tag-rome","tag-rule-of-law","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17639,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions\/17639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}