{"id":118305,"date":"2022-05-31T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=118305"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:07:18","slug":"the-u-s-government-is-driven-by-an-obsessive-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=118305","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>The U.S. Government is driven by an obsessive hatred.<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ussanews.com\/2022\/05\/30\/the-u-s-government-is-driven-by-an-obsessive-hatred\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-minimalistblogger-slider size-minimalistblogger-slider wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ussanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-blackBKG_1500px_1500px_ICON-5.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ussanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-blackBKG_1500px_1500px_ICON-5.png 512w, https:\/\/ussanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-blackBKG_1500px_1500px_ICON-5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ussanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-blackBKG_1500px_1500px_ICON-5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ussanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-blackBKG_1500px_1500px_ICON-5-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ussanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-blackBKG_1500px_1500px_ICON-5-400x400.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>by Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>It\u2019s a hatred which, from their standpoint, is alleged to be, instead, revenge (much like Hitler had said that WW II would be revenge against Jews for allegedly having been behind Germany\u2019s defeat in WW I, but America\u2019s rationalization is instead revenge against any country that resists the demands by the U.S. Government \u2014 refuses to do what the U.S. Government demands). They are obsessed with winning \u201cThe Great Game\u201d of imperialists, which is a zero-sum game: one\u2019s own \u2018side\u2019 can win,\u00a0<i>only<\/i>\u00a0to the extent that the \u2018enemy\u2019 side loses. The U.S. Government, thus, is constantly at war, against its \u2018enemies\u2019, until global conquest will be achieved \u2014 a conquest by America\u2019s aristocracy, their\u00a0<i>own<\/i>\u00a0billionaires, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/7zm7u\"><span class=\"s1\">control the U.S. Government<\/span><\/a>, against any Government which stands opposed to what they demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One cancelled (but fortunately archived) youtube video had displayed very well this mentality, including its paranoid sense of revenge-seeking, and of entitlement against the whole world:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160913173801\/https:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OJ3fTFHQ0KA&amp;gl=US&amp;hl=en\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160913173801\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OJ3fTFHQ0KA&amp;gl=US&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160913173801\/https:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OJ3fTFHQ0KA&amp;gl=US&amp;hl=en\"><b>\u201cFormer Acting Director of CIA Mike Morell Sought to \u2018Covertly\u2019 Kill Russians in Syria\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">9 August 2016, Charlie Rose Show, Morell Interview excerpt<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-viewport-1 ai-viewport-2\">\n<div class=\"pi_122212 jeeng\">\n<div class=\"pi_brand\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pi_au\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stripe.rs-stripe.com\/stripe\/redirect?cs_email={{GUID}}&amp;cs_stripeid=122212&amp;cs_offset=0&amp;cs_containertype=web&amp;cs_esp=powerinbox_web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stripe.rs-stripe.com\/stripe\/image?cs_email={{GUID}}&amp;cs_stripeid=122212&amp;cs_offset=0&amp;cs_containertype=web&amp;cs_esp=powerinbox_web\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>I give them the things they need to go after the Assad government, but also to have Iranians and Russians pay a price, alright. When we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shiia militia who were killing American soldiers. They were making, the Iranians were making, us pay a price. We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria, we need to make the Russians pay a price.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Make them pay a price by killing Russians?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>And killing Iranians?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Yes. Covertly. Don\u2019t tell the world about it, right. You don\u2019t stand up at the Pentagon and say we did this. But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran. Here\u2019s what I want to do. I want to go after those things that Assad sees as his personal powerbase, right. I want to scare Assad. So I want to go after his Presidential guard. I want to bomb his offices in the middle of the night.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>That happened about two years ago when his brother-in-law was \u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>I want to destroy his Presidential aircraft on the ground. I want to destroy his Presidential helicopters. I want to make him think we\u2019re coming after him, right. I\u2019m not advocating assassinating him. I\u2019m advocating going after what Assad thinks is his powerbase and what he needs to survive. I want him to think about: this is not going to end well for me. I want to put pressure on him, I want to put pressure on the Iranians, I want to put pressure on the Russians, to come to that diplomatic settlement<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The goal, in other words, is \u201cthat diplomatic settlement\u201d: it is, actually, the other side\u2019s surrender. It is conquest. It is conquest against anyone, and anything, that opposes \u201cus\u201d; and this doesn\u2019t include ONLY Russia, nor ONLY China, nor ONLY Iran, but ANY Government that would NOT side with \u201cus,\u201d against \u201cthem.\u201d It is conquest, actually, of the entire world. This is what America\u2019s Government\u00a0<i>demands<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Like all hatreds, America\u2019s Government refuses to view things, ever, in the way that its victims do \u2014 that is, in the way that all of America\u2019s \u2018enemies\u2019 do (and must \u2014 in order to\u00a0<i>be<\/i>\u00a0America\u2019s \u2018enemies\u2019, even if they\u2019re posing no actual danger to the American public). America\u2019s Government is similar to Hitler\u2019s, in this way, which is the racist-fascist way, the global-supremacist way: the nazi way. It is pure \u201cus against them,\u201d and of a certain kind, which does not\u00a0<i>publicly<\/i>\u00a0assert that it aims to exterminate the opposition, but which\u00a0<i>does<\/i>\u00a0publicly proclaim foreign Governments to\u00a0<i>be<\/i>\u00a0\u2018enemies\u2019 even if the hate-driven side has not yet\u00a0<i>publicly declared<\/i>\u00a0war against those \u2018enemies\u2019 \u2014 such as Hitler hadn\u2019t until WW II started, and such as the U.S. Government hasn\u2019t yet declared its war, ever since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/rKKnR#selection-1759.0-1769.8\"><span class=\"s3\">25 July 1945<\/span><\/a>, against Russia (nor against Russia\u2019s ally China, nor against ANY of the countries that AREN\u2019T \u2018allies\u2019, actually vassal-nations of the U.S. Government).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A good example of this was the U.S. Government, and its NATO military alliance against Russia, having ignored\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/e4NRx\"><span class=\"s4\">the Russian Government\u2019s demands which Russia presented to the U.S. and to NATO, in the middle of December 2021<\/span><\/a>, demands that NATO not expand, and that the NATO members which had been added after Russia had quit the Cold War in 1991 would be, in effect, cancelled, in accord with<span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/nSOHw\"><span class=\"s5\">what had BEEN the U.S.-and-\u2018allied\u2019 PROMISES to Russia\u00a0<i>prior to<\/i>\u00a0Russia\u2019s having quit the Cold War in 1991 \u2014 finally, now, for the U.S. and its \u2018allies\u2019 to HONOR those U.S.-and-allied promises, which the U.S. Government had made, back in 1990<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5 ai-viewport-1 ai-viewport-2\">\n<div class=\"pi_122216 jeeng\">\n<div class=\"pi_brand\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pi_au\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stripe.rs-stripe.com\/stripe\/redirect?cs_email={{GUID}}&amp;cs_stripeid=122216&amp;cs_offset=0&amp;cs_containertype=web&amp;cs_esp=powerinbox_web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stripe.rs-stripe.com\/stripe\/image?cs_email={{GUID}}&amp;cs_stripeid=122216&amp;cs_offset=0&amp;cs_containertype=web&amp;cs_esp=powerinbox_web\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/woOvb\"><span class=\"s6\">7 January 2022<\/span><\/a>, both America and its NATO said no to Russia\u2019s December 2021 demands. Then, on February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine \u2014 the country that was the most threatening to join NATO. The result of this invasion by Russia was that both Finland and Sweden asked to join NATO and were given immediate permission to join, by all of the existing NATO member-nations except Turkey. So: when Russia demanded that NATO cease its surrounding Russia by enemies, NATO responded by seeking to\u00a0<i>accelerate<\/i>\u00a0its stranglehold against Russia; and Finns and Swedes were the willing agents for that to happen. The U.S. Government has thus gained new overt \u2018allies\u2019 (new vassal-nations). This can lead only to WW III, or else to a restoration of the American Government that had been in existence prior to 25 July 1945 \u2014 a Constitutional Government, at peace with (and even perhaps allied with Russia), supporting equal international rights and obligations for\u00a0<i>all<\/i>\u00a0nations\u2019 Governments,\u00a0<i>no<\/i>international supremacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The obsession of the U.S. Government is primarily against Russia. This shows itself not only regarding Ukraine, but in\u00a0<i>all instances<\/i>, such as Syria:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s7\">On 13 May 2020,<i>\u00a0Newsweek<\/i>\u00a0bannered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-syria-representative-james-jeffrey-job-make-war-quagmire-russia-1503702\"><span class=\"s8\">\u201cU.S. Syria Representative Says His Job Is to Make the War a \u2018Quagmire\u2019 for Russia\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and reported that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Special Representative James Jeffrey said Tuesday during a Hudson Institute video call that President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d approach towards Syria was paying dividends, and rejected concerns that the American deployment there could turn into a drawn out and costly project akin to Afghanistan or Vietnam.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cWe are pursuing what we think is a smart policy,\u201d Jeffrey said. \u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The U.S. has opposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the civil war erupted in 2011 after the dictator used force to try and stamp out pro-reform protests. \u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Assad \u2014 who now controls the majority of the country \u2014 is backed by Russia and Iran, both of which the U.S. is trying to undermine. Jeffrey said Tuesday that the U.S. strategy will both weaken America\u2019s enemies while avoiding costly mission creep.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cThis isn\u2019t Afghanistan, this isn\u2019t Vietnam,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a quagmire. My job is to make it a quagmire for the Russians.\u201d \u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Jeffrey also said it was imperative to \u201ckeep the pressure on\u201d the Assad regime, explaining, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a regime that poses more threats to its region and to the American idea of how the world should be organized.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">America\u2019s proxy-forces in that war to bring down Assad have mainly been a hundred thousand or so jihadists imported from around the world, under the leadership of Al Qaeda in Syria. America has trained and armed the jihadists, who are led by Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is no threat to America\u2019s Government, but it is very much a threat not only to the American people but to Syria\u2019s Government \u2014 and is overwhelmingly loathed by the Syrian people and considered by them to be U.S.-Government proxy-forces invading and occupying their land. Al Qaeda is, in fact, a U.S.-Government ally. It provides very cheap proxy-forces for the U.S. Government, in Syria, and in some other countries where the U.S. Government seeks to overthrow the existing Government \u2014 an existing Government that resists their land\u2019s being taken over by agents of the U.S. Government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There similarly was \u201cpressure\u201d against Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/feb\/08\/viktor-yanukovych-ukraine-president-election\"><span class=\"s9\">democratically elected in 2010 President Viktor Yanukovych<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who was committed to maintaining Ukraine\u2019s neutrality between the American Government and Ukraine\u2019s neighbor, Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The reason why\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europereloaded.com\/the-obama-regimes-plan-to-seize-the-russian-naval-base-in-crimea\/\"><span class=\"s10\">U.S. President Obama overthrew Yanukovych in February 2014<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is that Ukraine on Russia\u2019s border has the nearest location to Moscow and thus the best location from which to blitz-attack Russia\u2019s central command there fast enough (within less than 7 minutes missile-flying time) to become able possibly to eliminate Russia\u2019s retaliatory weapons\u00a0<i>before<\/i>\u00a0they can be launched. Obama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/uAVEW\"><span class=\"s10\">intended even when he entered office in 2009, to replace Syria\u2019s Government<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(allied with Russia), but his decision to replace Ukraine\u2019s Government (and install there an\u00a0<i>anti<\/i>-Russian one) didn\u2019t come right away. On 12 April 2010 Ukraine\u2019s newly elected President Yanukovych met the U.S. President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/x1p8V\"><span class=\"s10\">at the White House, to which Obama had invited him<\/span><\/a>. Yanukovych refused Obama\u2019s suggestions that Ukraine join America\u2019s alliance against Ukraine\u2019s next-door neighbor Russia. Then, on 2 July 2010, U.S. Secretary of State &#8216;Resting-Bitch-Face&#8217; Hillary Clinton and Yanukovych held a joint press conference in Kiev, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/vffKU\"><span class=\"s10\">she said<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that she had discussed with Yanukovych joint military exercises with U.S. forces against his neighbor, Russia. Yanukovych again declined the demands, and the official whom Obama had appointed in order to plan the coup, Victoria Nuland, already started the U.S. Inept State Department operation by no later than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170313202456\/http:\/www.intrepidreport.com\/archives\/19074\"><span class=\"s10\">23 June 2011<\/span><\/a>. This was to be a classic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k\"><span class=\"s10\">U.S. coup<\/span><\/a>, but overseen by the Inept State Department under Nuland\u2019s friend &#8216;Resting-Bitch-Face&#8217; Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State), and with Vice President Brain-Dead Biden always on call to give any needed (as Nuland famously put it)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/XrN5n#selection-1043.229-1043.237\"><span class=\"s10\">\u201catta-boy.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The founder-and-head of the \u2018private CIA\u2019 firm Stratfor even called it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/NAXCc\"><span class=\"s10\">\u201cthe most blatant coup in history.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0As was obvious from the many cellphone and other videos that were taken of it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw\"><span class=\"s10\">racist-fascist \u2014 or \u201cnazi\u201d \u2014 anti-Russian paramilitaries carried it out<\/span><\/a>, and they had been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/vjLDF\"><span class=\"s10\">organized<\/span><\/a>, trained, and armed by the U.S. Government in order to prevent the public\u2019s knowing who was actually behind the operation; but, by the time of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/rWTuI#selection-1357.131-2065.114\"><span class=\"s10\">26 February 2014, high officials of the EU discovered that it had been done by \u201csomebody from the new coalition\u201d \u2014 in other words, from Ukraine\u2019s newly installed government \u2014 NOT by the Yanukovych Administration (such as the U.S. and its media had falsely reported)<\/span><\/a>. It was actually done by the Administration in Washington, as one brilliant video-journalist first made public by a compilation-video he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fWkfpGCAAuw\"><span class=\"s10\">posted to youtube as early as 12 March 2014<\/span><\/a>. (So, ever since that date, all honest journalists have been referring to that governmental overthrow as having been another U.S. \u201ccoup\u201d instead of as having been a \u2018revolution\u2019 or any \u2018democratic\u2019 operation \u2014 which is what America\u2019s press\u00a0<i>still alleges<\/i>\u00a0it to have been. In fact, the overthrow was by a foreign power, America, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gpforecasts.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/28\/yanukovychs-removal-was-unconstitutional\/\"><span class=\"s10\">thoroughly illegal<\/span><\/a>. But this is\u00a0<i>acceptable<\/i>\u00a0to America\u2019s \u201crules-based international order,\u201d which certainly isn\u2019t the U.N.\u2019s international laws.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">America\u2019s Government is virtually united in support of its Ukraine, against Russia.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moderndiplomacy.eu\/2022\/05\/24\/the-u-s-doesnt-want-to-protect-ukraine-it-wants-to-defeat-russia\/\"><span class=\"s11\">The U.S. doesn\u2019t want to protect Ukraine; it wants to defeat Russia.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And this was made clear by six members of the U.S. Congress on March 23rd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, when they were interviewed there by a 100% pro-U.S.-Government, 100% anti-Russia, journalist from Britain\u2019s\u00a0<i>Economist<\/i>. The delegation there consisted of Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and (so as to include a black face in the crowd) Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The only youtube video that the WEF posted from that lengthy presentation was this 43-second clip from Senator Manchin, who is, within the entire U.S. Senate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/zurt3\"><span class=\"s5\">the crossover one, between Democrats and Republicans, right in the middle<\/span><\/a>, the consensus (or bipartisan) Senator if anyone is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jdp-lzHZ2yg\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jdp-lzHZ2yg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jdp-lzHZ2yg\"><b>\u201cJoe Manchin | Committed To Ukraine Winning This War\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">World Economic Forum Video. 43 seconds.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And he was 100% backed up there by the five others there:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?520501-1\/us-lawmakers-participate-world-economic-forum\">www.c-span.org\/video\/?520501-1\/us-lawmakers-participate-world-economic-forum<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s10\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?520501-1\/us-lawmakers-participate-world-economic-forum.\"><b>\u201cU.S. Lawmakers Participate in World Economic Forum\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For example, Senator Leahy, who is the senior, and perhaps the most liberal or consistently Democratic Party, U.S. Senator, said that the proudest moment in his entire career in the U.S. Senate was when he had the privilege to place onto the President\u2019s desk recently to sign the almost unanimously passed law\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/cjkC0\"><span class=\"s13\">to add $40.1 billion more in aid to Ukraine and cuts in U.S. domestic programs so as to defeat Russia in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>. That entire delegation were euphoric about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/gU87X\"><span class=\"s6\">sending even more weapons and \u2018humanitarian\u2019 aid in order to enable Ukraine to continue fighting and not surrender nor even seriously negotiate about Russia\u2019s demands<\/span><\/a>, which the U.S. had contemptuously rejected back on January 7th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>It was hatred, by all six of them, and by the WEF itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>No transcript was supplied by WEF. The c-span video (like all of their videos) is designed to be almost impossible to get any usable transcript from; and even their extremely user-hostile transcript feature excludes most of the most intensely hate-filled portion, but the entirety of the first 20 minutes of that video is well worth watching, for any person who wants to understand how much the U.S. Government craves to conquer Russia \u2014 how much hatred they have against Russia.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theduran.com\/the-u-s-government-is-driven-by-an-obsessive-hatred\/\">https:\/\/theduran.com\/the-u-s-government-is-driven-by-an-obsessive-hatred\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}