{"id":14071,"date":"2014-02-21T03:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T03:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/avalonslight-fuck-this-infographic-so-hard\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T19:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:13:32","slug":"avalonslight-fuck-this-infographic-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/avalonslight-fuck-this-infographic-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14071 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/avalonslight-fuck-this-infographic-so-hard\/attachment\/14072\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1btpwixHR1rk8expo1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avalonslight.tumblr.com\/post\/77343077957\/fuck-this-infographic-so-hard-quick-history-lesson\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">avalonslight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fuck this infographic so hard<br \/>Quick history lesson infographic:<br \/>13, 14, 15th Amendments\u2014passed in the 1860\u2019s<br \/>At that time Republicans believed in social reform etc etc etc<br \/>Democrats were much more conservative (originally getting their name from a title Jackson picked (he\u2019s the biggest jerk of all in my opinion))<br \/>Following Reconstruction we enter the Progressive Era<br \/>The Progressive Era came about to take care of political corruption etc<br \/>During that time Taft split the Republican party (hi Bull Moose)<br \/>This allowed the Democrats to take control<br \/>But they couldn\u2019t keep control because they had only won because they had gotten votes from those who didn\u2019t support Taft<br \/>That forced them to change their views and become more moderate<br \/>Over time the pendulum swung completely over<br \/>Now Democrats are the party of social reform etc<br \/>And Republicans are the Conservatives<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ever heard of the term &#8220;Southern Democrat&#8221;? Yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>avalonslight: Fuck this infographic so hardQuick history lesson infographic:13, 14, 15th Amendments\u2014passed in the 1860\u2019sAt that time Republicans believed in social reform etc etc etcDemocrats were much more conservative (originally getting their name from a title Jackson picked (he\u2019s the biggest jerk of all in my opinion))Following Reconstruction we enter the Progressive EraThe Progressive Era &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/21\/avalonslight-fuck-this-infographic-so-hard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14073,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions\/14073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}