{"id":600,"date":"2018-11-05T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=600"},"modified":"2018-11-05T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:14:31","slug":"a-must-read-from-the-voice-of-americas-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/a-must-read-from-the-voice-of-americas-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"A must read from the voice of America&#8217;s conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, I have considered Lewis Lapham to be the voice of America&#8217;s conscience. On the eve of one of the most important points in the history of the United States, Lapham, former editor of\u00a0<em>Harpers<\/em> and now editor of <em>Lapham&#8217;s Quarterly<\/em>, has published a searing truth-telling essay entitled, &#8220;Of America and the Rise of the Stupified Plutocrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yD9MJmFYjk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/lewis-lapham-of-america-and-the-rise-of-the-stupefied-plutocrat\/\">Lewis Lapham: Of America and the Rise of the Stupefied Plutocrat<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Lewis Lapham: Of America and the Rise of the Stupefied Plutocrat&#8221; &#8212; Literary  Hub\" src=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/lewis-lapham-of-america-and-the-rise-of-the-stupefied-plutocrat\/embed\/#?secret=qRtgYqinq0#?secret=yD9MJmFYjk\" data-secret=\"yD9MJmFYjk\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, I have considered Lewis Lapham to be the voice of America&#8217;s conscience. On the eve of one of the most important points in the history of the United States, Lapham, former editor of\u00a0Harpers and now editor of Lapham&#8217;s Quarterly, has published a searing truth-telling essay entitled, &#8220;Of America and the Rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}