{"id":25706,"date":"2016-07-02T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25706"},"modified":"2016-07-02T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T17:40:33","slug":"weekend-reads-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/weekend-reads-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two very different ones:<\/p>\n<p>J.K. Rowling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pottermore.com\/writing-by-jk-rowling\/ilvermorny\" target=\"_blank\">tells of the founding<\/a> of Ilvermorny, the North American wizarding school. There&#8217;s a video, too.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearworld.com\/articles\/2016\/06\/30\/the_age_of_disintegration_111931.html\" target=\"_blank\">Age of Disintegration<\/a>. There&#8217;s a bit to disagree with. The author doesn&#8217;t get the difference between real free markets and crony capitalism within a statist system. But it&#8217;s as good an analysis of the Middle East mess &#8212; and its western roots &#8212; as any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two very different ones: J.K. Rowling tells of the founding of Ilvermorny, the North American wizarding school. There&#8217;s a video, too. The Age of Disintegration. There&#8217;s a bit to disagree with. The author doesn&#8217;t get the difference between real free markets and crony capitalism within a statist system. But it&#8217;s as good an analysis of the Middle East mess &#8212; and its western roots &#8212; as any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}