{"id":645,"date":"2006-08-12T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=645"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T01:51:31","slug":"the-march-of-folly-by-barbara-tuchman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2006\/the-march-of-folly-by-barbara-tuchman","title":{"rendered":"The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-646 alignright\" title=\"tuchman-march-of-folly\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tuchman-march-of-folly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"280\" \/>With America &#8220;at war&#8221; on several fronts, I was stimulated to recall this wonderful and important book by the eminent historian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbara_Tuchman\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Tuchman<\/a>. The first line says it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/cgi-bin\/wisdom.cgi?a=barbaratuchman\" target=\"_blank\">More Tuchman Quotations&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With America &#8220;at war&#8221; on several fronts, I was stimulated to recall this wonderful and important book by the eminent historian\u00a0Barbara Tuchman. The first line says it all&#8230; A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. More Tuchman Quotations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}