{"id":5404,"date":"2024-07-14T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:45:54","slug":"fringe-benefits-a-review-of-wide-awake-the-forgotten-force-that-elected-lincoln-and-spurred-the-civil-war-by-jon-grinspan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/fringe-benefits-a-review-of-wide-awake-the-forgotten-force-that-elected-lincoln-and-spurred-the-civil-war-by-jon-grinspan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fringe Benefits: A review of &#8216;Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War&#8217; by Jon Grinspan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"157\" data-attachment-id=\"5381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/guerrillas-in-their-midst-a-review-of-the-unvanquished-the-untold-story-of-lincolns-special-forces-the-manhunt-for-mosbys-rangers-and-the-shadow-war-that-forged-americas\/the-washington-free-beacon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon.png\" data-orig-size=\"766,157\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The-Washington-Free-Beacon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon-300x61.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon.png 766w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-Washington-Free-Beacon-300x61.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching Proud Boys wearing black Fred Perry polos and getting into fisticuffs with Antifa. Anonymous hacktivists wearing creepy, plastic Guy Fawkes masks and messing with the computers of law enforcement and other organizations they think corrupt or cruel. Oath Keepers proclaiming to be &#8220;Guardians of the Republic&#8221; and traveling to the U.S. Capitol with paramilitary equipment to &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; in January 2021. Woke &#8220;Free Gaza&#8221; protesters clad in keffiyehs and N-95 masks storming university buildings and building squatter camps&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/fringe-benefits\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marching Proud Boys wearing black Fred Perry polos and getting into fisticuffs with Antifa. Anonymous hacktivists wearing creepy, plastic Guy Fawkes masks and messing with the computers of law enforcement and other organizations they think corrupt or cruel. Oath Keepers proclaiming to be &#8220;Guardians of the Republic&#8221; and traveling to the U.S. Capitol with paramilitary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[138,73,68],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-book-reviews-nonfiction","category-politics","tag-the-free-beacon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}