{"id":8281,"date":"2022-07-04T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:49:18","slug":"how-woodrow-wilsons-vanity-destroyed-the-old-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8281","title":{"rendered":"How Woodrow Wilson\u2019s Vanity Destroyed the Old World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Wilson\u2019s position was beyond outlandish. He believed that the presence of just one American should immunize a reserve military vessel of a belligerent power under orders to attack enemy submarines and carrying military contraband through a war zone. It was a nonsensical claim, understandable only as policy calculated to allow Washington to enter the war on behalf of the Allies. To make such a position the cause for war was murderous partisanship.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/how-woodrow-wilsons-vanity-destroyed-the-old-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/spectator.org\/how-woodrow-wilsons-vanity-destroyed-the-old-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wilson\u2019s position was beyond outlandish. He believed that the presence of just one American should immunize a reserve military vessel of a belligerent power under orders to attack enemy submarines and carrying military contraband through a war zone. It was a nonsensical claim, understandable only as policy calculated to allow Washington to enter the war on behalf of the Allies. To make such a position the cause for war was murderous partisanship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[770,1675,1339],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-history","tag-woodrow-wilson","tag-world-war-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}