{"id":5144,"date":"2008-12-19T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2008-12-19T11:06:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:06:36","slug":"subversive-historian-121908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/12\/19\/subversive-historian-121908\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 12\/19\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests121908\/2008_12_19_sh.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests121908\/2008_12_19_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Paine&#8217;s &#8220;American Crisis&#8221; by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two hundred and thirty-two years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, Thomas Paine penned the first of his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Crisis,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d essays. On December 19th, 1776, the eighteenth century enlightenment thinker began his pamphlet series with the famous words, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153these are the times that try men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s souls.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Coming at a time when the American Revolution was faltering, Paine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words were meant to boost the effort to defeat the British colonialists. General George Washington read the first essay to his troops in Trenton, New Jersey. However, as history would have it, Paine and Washington would have a falling out after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The American Crisis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d author was imprisoned in France during the course of their revolution. Sensing abandonment, Paine lambasted Washington in an open letter saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the world will be puzzled to decide whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>With another George still in office today, and another &#8220;American Crisis&#8221; it&#8217;s about time somebody came to bring the Paine!<\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Paine&#8217;s &#8220;American Crisis&#8221; by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Two hundred and thirty-two years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, Thomas Paine penned the first of his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Crisis,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d essays. On December 19th, 1776, the eighteenth century enlightenment thinker began his pamphlet series with the famous words, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153these are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}