{"id":3660,"date":"2011-01-01T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2011-01-01T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:30:10","slug":"at-the-turn-of-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"At the turn of another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyon-Griswold-brawl.jpg\" alt=\"Lyon-Griswold brawl\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Reps. <strong>Roger Griswold<\/strong> of Connecticut and <strong>Matthew Lyon<\/strong> of Vermont practice politics by means of hickory stick and tongs in Congress Hall, 1798<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always interesting to watch the way one thing morphs into another, and von Clausewitz&#8217; formulation that war is &#8220;a mere continuation of politics by other means&#8221; is instructively illustrated in the gallery of a dozen photos on the CBS News site titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/2300-503543_162-10006010.html\">Best Parliamentary Brawls of 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, Indonesia, Italy, S Korea, Nigeria, Taiwan, Turkey\u2026 that&#8217;s a pretty fair slice of gepopolitics!<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><em>image above from the <a href=\"http:\/\/loc.gov\/pictures\/resource\/cph.3a05342\/\">Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron ] Reps. Roger Griswold of Connecticut and Matthew Lyon of Vermont practice politics by means of hickory stick and tongs in Congress Hall, 1798 It&#8217;s always interesting to watch the way one thing morphs into another, and von Clausewitz&#8217; formulation that war is &#8220;a mere continuation of politics by other means&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,604,476,178,425,51,371,39,187,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-clausewitzian","category-democracy","category-geopolitics","category-government","category-history","category-humor","category-military","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}