{"id":39418,"date":"2021-04-27T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=39418"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:32:01","slug":"oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e22-dont-mess-with-the-bourgeoisie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=39418","title":{"rendered":"Oldfilibuster\u2019s Rhyme &#038; Reason \u2013 E22 &#8211; Don\u2019t Mess with the Bourgeoisie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?light=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Foldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e22-dont-mess-with-the-bourgeoisie%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A country operating at a feudal level in the late eighteenth century may, in the words of Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde\u2019s <em>The Importance of Being Ernest<\/em>, \u201c<em>be regarded as a misfortune<\/em>.\u201d A country operating at a feudal level in the early twentieth century may be described by that same good lady as, \u201c<em>carelessness<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 And so it was that two kings, over a century apart, opted to ignore the march of time, the advancement of modernity with its ensuing benefits, the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and the Enlightenment. One was a Bourbon and one was a Romanov.<\/p>\n<p>Produced and presented by Bernie Dwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A country operating at a feudal level in the late eighteenth century may, in the words of Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde\u2019s The Importance of Being Ernest, \u201cbe regarded as a misfortune.\u201d A country operating at a feudal level in the early twentieth century may be described by that same good lady as, \u201ccarelessness\u201d.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39420,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39418\/revisions\/39420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}