{"id":20753,"date":"2016-02-15T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:25:51","slug":"nytimes-how-america-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20753","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: How America Was Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/15\/opinion\/how-america-was-lost.html\">How America Was Lost<\/a> by Paul Krugman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn\u2019t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party. In today\u2019s America, with today\u2019s G.O.P., the passing of Antonin Scalia has opened the doors to chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For 42 years, SCOTUS has had a Republican majority, and the Republicans apparently feel a proprietary interest in owning all branches of government. Elections have consequences, but not when one is in denial apparently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: How America Was Lost by Paul Krugman: Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn\u2019t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20753\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20764,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}