{"id":9218,"date":"2021-10-30T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2021-10-30T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:13:26","slug":"we-the-fallen-people-the-founders-and-the-future-of-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9218","title":{"rendered":"WE THE FALLEN PEOPLE: THE FOUNDERS AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>I just finished<em> We the Fallen People<\/em>. Truly amazing. If I could wave a wand every American would have to read it as part of their citizenship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Years ago, I developed \u201cMoore\u2019s Law of Worthwhile Reading.\u201d I take the number of pages in a book and divide it by two. If my marginalia exceeds that number it was a worthwhile read. Some books that make the cut are ones I disagree with, but not this one. For this one, I made 321 marginal notes. These can be anything from an exclamation point to a few sentences. I never put one question mark in the margins which is rare.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In any case, I am going to be recommending\u00a0this book far and wide!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My interview with Tracy will be coming soon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B08WP8MTBJ\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished We the Fallen People. Truly amazing. If I could wave a wand every American would have to read it as part of their citizenship. Years ago, I developed \u201cMoore\u2019s Law of Worthwhile Reading.\u201d I take the number of pages in a book and divide it by two. If my marginalia exceeds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}