{"id":17860,"date":"2012-11-06T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17860"},"modified":"2012-11-06T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:37:07","slug":"farewell-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/farewell-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bye-bye-USA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17861\" title=\"Bye-bye USA\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bye-bye-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI know it\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but a democracy <em>does<\/em> get the government it deserves and, apparently, what the US deserves is a con man who has convinced the gullible that he can give them what they want: unlimited, unearned, undeserved hand-outs. God\u2019s punishment to the Romans in Romans 1 was not to rain down fire from heaven, but to allow them to have what they wanted unfettered by God\u2019s restraining morality; here we go again.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry, though: the fall of a civilisation is a reminder for Christians that we live in two kingdoms, the more important of which is a kingdom that can never be shaken: the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but a democracy does get the government it deserves and, apparently, what the US deserves is a con man who has convinced the gullible that he can give them what they want: unlimited, unearned, undeserved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/farewell-usa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[2215],"class_list":["post-17860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}