{"id":403,"date":"2006-02-12T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2006-02-12T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T15:34:00","slug":"whiggin-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Whiggin&#8217; out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it says <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whig_Party_%28United_States%29\">here<\/a> that the Whig party was formed in response to the overreaching executive policies of President Andrew Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Seems they felt the prez was gettin&#8217; a might uppity, doing things that maybe he wasn&#8217;t authorized to do, such as taking deposits from the Bank of the United States without the consent of congress.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s up for a Whig rally?<\/p>\n<p>This time they probably won&#8217;t fall apart due to internal squabbling on the question of slavery.  I think that question&#8217;s probably been pretty well answered now (It&#8217;s bad.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it says here that the Whig party was formed in response to the overreaching executive policies of President Andrew Jackson. Seems they felt the prez was gettin&#8217; a might uppity, doing things that maybe he wasn&#8217;t authorized to do, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}