{"id":212454,"date":"2026-03-03T00:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212454"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:57:19","slug":"andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212454","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Johnson\u2019s 1868 Christmas pardon shows how forgiveness and politics collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historical amnesty to confederates is often cited in discussions about pardons for political violence and democracy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/12\/25\/andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical amnesty to confederates is often cited in discussions about pardons for political violence and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide.jpg",1024,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide-300x198.jpg",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide-768x506.jpg",640,422,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide.jpg",640,422,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide.jpg",1024,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide.jpg",1024,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide.jpg",1024,675,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212454-andrew-johnsons-1868-christmas-pardon-shows-how-forgiveness-and-politics-collide-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\/212454","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=212454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}