{"id":185,"date":"2006-10-02T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=185"},"modified":"2006-10-02T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:16:54","slug":"nyt-compares-roman-lex-gabinia-to-current-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/10\/02\/nyt-compares-roman-lex-gabinia-to-current-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT compares Roman &#8216;Lex Gabinia&#8217; to current legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/30\/opinion\/30harris.html?ex=1160280000&#038;en=954fd0c6e54a35d7&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1\">What A Terrorist Incident in Ancient Rome Can Teach Us &#8211; Pirates of the Mediterranean &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article makes an interesting comparison between Roman history and the post 9\/11 history of the U.S.  The author draws a number of parallels highlighting the effects of citizens ceding their rights to the government when panic ensues after an event such as a terrorist attack.  The similarities are striking.  The author makes a good point about the &#8220;Law of unintended consequences.&#8221;  We would all do well to remember the lessons of Rome so that we don&#8217;t make the same mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What A Terrorist Incident in Ancient Rome Can Teach Us &#8211; Pirates of the Mediterranean &#8211; New York Times This article makes an interesting comparison between Roman history and the post 9\/11 history of the U.S. The author draws a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/10\/02\/nyt-compares-roman-lex-gabinia-to-current-legislation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}