{"id":719,"date":"2004-01-04T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/04\/read-this-colossus\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:45:32","slug":"read-this-colossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/04\/read-this-colossus\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Ferguson &#038; Colossus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have spent much of Sunday working on a book review due later this week of <I>Colossus<\/I>, the new book from Niall Ferguson.  Can&#8217;t say too much about it until after the review&#8217;s turned in and published, but I was interested enough to look up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickmcginnis.com\/books\/ferguson.htm\">this interview<\/a>, which although about a previous book hints at some of Ferguson&#8217;s current themes, and am now eagerly awaiting the full posting of <a href=\"http:\/\/globetrotter.berkeley.edu\/people3\/Ferguson\/ferguson-con0.html\">this interview<\/a>. Oh, and here&#8217;s another sneak peek at the themes of <I>Colossus<\/I>, in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.org\/20030901fareviewessay82512\/niall-ferguson\/hegemony-or-empire.html\">book review<\/A> Ferguson wrote for <I>Foreign Affairs<\/I>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have spent much of Sunday working on a book review due later this week of Colossus, the new book from Niall Ferguson. Can&#8217;t say too much about it until after the review&#8217;s turned in and published, but I was interested enough to look up this interview, which although about a previous book hints at some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}