{"id":1238,"date":"2021-05-25T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:59:19","slug":"the-decline-and-fall-of-the-british-empire-robert-briffault-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/2021\/05\/25\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-british-empire-robert-briffault-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire-Robert Briffault-1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy a curious convention, almost invariably observed until recently, the history of England was brought to an abrupt conclusion with the battle of Waterloo. The idea was, I suppose, similar to that which required that a fairy tale should end with the words: &#8220;And they lived happily ever after.&#8221; In point of fact, the history of England as a world power, instead of ending, begins with the battle of Waterloo, or thereabouts. The last chapter in our school histories is really the first in the annals of England as a factor of importance in world affairs, and what goes before is of the nature of a prologue or preface&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_British_Empire-Robert_Briffault-1938-270pgs-POL.sml_.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire-Robert Briffault-1938<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a curious convention, almost invariably observed until recently, the history of England was brought to an abrupt conclusion with the battle of Waterloo. The idea was, I suppose, similar to that which required that a fairy tale should end with the words: &#8220;And they lived happily ever after.&#8221; In point of fact, the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americandeception.com\/ad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}