{"id":3171,"date":"2011-12-14T07:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2011-12-14T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T17:02:18","slug":"the-imagined-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2011\/12\/14\/the-imagined-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The imagined government"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nation-states are imagined communities of relatively recent date, rather than eternal or inevitable realities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Philip Jenkins paraphrasing Benedict Anderson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How entrenched in our minds is the idol of the government, replacing God? To answer this question, we have to try and imagine life without the modern state. Remarkably hard to do. That&#8217;s how deep a hold it has on us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nation-states are imagined communities of relatively recent date, rather than eternal or inevitable realities.&#8221; -Philip Jenkins paraphrasing Benedict Anderson How entrenched in our minds is the idol of the government, replacing God? To answer this question, we have to try and imagine life without the modern state. Remarkably hard to do. That&#8217;s how deep a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2011\/12\/14\/the-imagined-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The imagined government&#8221;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}