{"id":2309,"date":"2012-12-28T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2012-12-28T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:25:36","slug":"caleb-crain-unfortunate-events-the-new-yorker-october-22-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/caleb-crain-unfortunate-events-the-new-yorker-october-22-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Crain, &#8220;Unfortunate Events,&#8221; The New Yorker, October 22, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/images\/covers\/2012\/2012_10_22_p323.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"211\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NewYorker.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What was the War of 1812 about?&#8221; this review asks.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Britain had fought a few decades earlier over independence&#8212;but the War of 1812 was not a logical successor. The Mother Country didn&#8217;t want to recolonize America.\u00a0The causes for the belligerence are many, but none seems substantial enough to justify spending so much blood and treasure.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2012\/10\/22\/121022crbo_books_crain\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2012\/10\/22\/121022crbo_books_crain<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What was the War of 1812 about?&#8221; this review asks. The United States and Britain had fought a few decades earlier over independence&#8212;but the War of 1812 was not a logical successor. The Mother Country didn&#8217;t want to recolonize America.\u00a0The causes for the belligerence are many, but none seems substantial enough to justify spending so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[143],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-read","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}