{"id":179802,"date":"2025-09-29T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179802"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:31:06","slug":"yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179802","title":{"rendered":"Yes, this is who we are: America\u2019s 250-year history of political violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray \u2018who we are\u2019 is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-265171\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence.jpg",1356,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-300x148.jpg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-768x378.jpg",640,315,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-1024x504.jpg",640,315,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence.jpg",1356,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence.jpg",1356,668,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-1024x504.jpg",1024,504,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179802-yes-this-is-who-we-are-americas-250-year-history-of-political-violence-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}