{"id":345,"date":"2006-11-19T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T05:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=345"},"modified":"2006-11-19T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T05:24:18","slug":"maybe-the-french-should-be-speaking-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the French Should Be Speaking German"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve been Europe&#8217;s security blanket for six decades. We are Japan&#8217;s security blanket. We are South Korea&#8217;s. It&#8217;s been said that were it not for us, the French would be speaking German and the Germans would be speaking Russian. In 1938, the West decided it couldn&#8217;t be Czechoslovakia&#8217;s security blanket and sold out that country in Munich, Germany. The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/editorial\/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&#038;status=article&#038;id=248572720653408&#038;view=1\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/a> by way of the <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/2006\/11\/post_407.php\">Instapundit<\/a> by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/booksinq.blogspot.com\/\">Books, Inq.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been Europe&#8217;s security blanket for six decades. We are Japan&#8217;s security blanket. We are South Korea&#8217;s. It&#8217;s been said that were it not for us, the French would be speaking German and the Germans would be speaking Russian. In 1938, the West decided it couldn&#8217;t be Czechoslovakia&#8217;s security blanket and sold out that country &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe the French Should Be Speaking German<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}