{"id":605,"date":"2024-08-14T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/israel-leader-of-the-free-world\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:14:10","slug":"israel-leader-of-the-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/israel-leader-of-the-free-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: Leader of the Free World"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">For eight decades after the end of World War II, America\u2019s proudest title was \u201cLeader of the Free World.\u201d Today, both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be free, we are yielding the title to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">George Gilder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/08\/14\/israel_leader_of_the_free_world_151445.html\">makes the case<\/a>, and a strong case it is.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For eight decades after the end of World War II, America\u2019s proudest title was \u201cLeader of the Free World.\u201d Today, both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be free, we are yielding the title to Israel. George Gilder makes the case, and a strong case it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}