{"id":28270,"date":"2014-06-13T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=28270"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:43:03","slug":"plague-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=28270","title":{"rendered":"Plague, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So THIS is what it felt like in Tuscany, in the late 300s&#8211;early 400s, with the barbarians at the gates and weeds growing in Hadrian&#8217;s wall.\u00a0All empires, having risen, eventually fall. Take Great Britain; total badasses for several hundred years then all their European wars and failed colonies finally take them down a notch or two. As their influence wanes, they spend more time taking care of their own and end up with a nifty package of social safety nets and basically no-cost healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, they&#8217;re not kicking ass anymore, they&#8217;re especially proud these days, but it&#8217;s not like they have rioting in the streets or anything.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll go out like the broke drunk booted from a dive bar, doing our best to trash the place while the bouncer pushes us out, slurring curses and daring anyone to come outside and try and kick <em>our<\/em> ass. Also the bouncer will be Chinese.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So THIS is what it felt like in Tuscany, in the late 300s&#8211;early 400s, with the barbarians at the gates and weeds growing in Hadrian&#8217;s wall.\u00a0All empires, having risen, eventually fall. Take Great Britain; total badasses for several hundred years then all their European wars and failed colonies finally take them down a notch or [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28279,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28270\/revisions\/28279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}