{"id":13455,"date":"2020-02-24T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2020-02-25T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:46:28","slug":"was-the-american-revolution-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/24\/was-the-american-revolution-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the American Revolution a mistake?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02252020-02-e1582591817824.jpeg\" alt=\"Was the American Revolution a mistake?\" class=\"wp-image-13449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02252020-02-e1582591817824.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02252020-02-e1582591817824-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02252020-02-e1582591817824-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02252020-02-e1582591817824-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Was the American Revolution a mistake?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIDK, but if it hadn&#8217;t happened there never would have been different lyrics to the melody of &#8220;God Save the Queen,&#8221; and you&#8217;d be eating fish and chips for tea rather than pizza for dinner. At any rate, you&#8217;re 245 years late; that alternative timeline is in the trash can (not the dustbin).\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDK, but if it hadn&#8217;t happened there never would have been different lyrics to the melody of &#8220;God Save the Queen,&#8221; and you&#8217;d be eating fish and chips for tea rather than pizza for dinner. At any rate, you&#8217;re 245 years late; that alternative timeline is in the trash can (not the dustbin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}