{"id":564,"date":"2017-01-07T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=564"},"modified":"2017-01-07T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T19:57:52","slug":"the-american-prism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"The American Prism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hartz noted in the mid-1950s that the distinctive American ethos he described can lead to either messianism or isolationism, with a tendency to oscillate between the two. &#8222;An absolute national morality,&#8220; he wrote, &#8222;is inspired either to withdraw from &#8218;alien&#8216; things or to transform them: it cannot live in comfort constantly by their side.&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014Paul Pillar, <em>Why America Misunderstands the World<\/em>, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartz noted in the mid-1950s that the distinctive American ethos he described can lead to either messianism or isolationism, with a tendency to oscillate between the two. &#8222;An absolute national morality,&#8220; he wrote, &#8222;is inspired either to withdraw from &#8218;alien&#8216; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=564\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}