{"id":19640,"date":"2022-12-12T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2022-12-12T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:45:15","slug":"hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=19640","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Books: America might not exist if not for a pre-Revolution smallpox outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid pandemic wasn&#8217;t the first time that America has found itself split along ideological seams over infectious disease, nor was the Spanish Flu in 1919. Even when America was still a collection of colonies, we held bitter disagreements on public health policy.\u00a0During the run-up to the Revolutionary War&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/hitting-the-books-the-contagion-of-liberty-andrew-wehrman-jhu-press-153025990.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid pandemic wasn&#8217;t the first time that America has found itself split along ideological<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak.jpg",2048,1387,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-300x203.jpg",300,203,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-768x520.jpg",640,433,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-1024x694.jpg",640,434,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-1536x1040.jpg",1536,1040,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak.jpg",2048,1387,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-1024x694.jpg",1024,694,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/19640-hitting-the-books-america-might-not-exist-if-not-for-a-pre-revolution-smallpox-outbreak-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=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640","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=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}