{"id":1180,"date":"2007-03-10T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2007-03-10T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T05:29:56","slug":"book-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2007\/03\/10\/book-of-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"mlq3\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2007\/03\/10\/book-of-the-week-2\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>George Jacques Danton gave a simple explanation why his generation of young professionals embarked on the French Revolution.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nQuoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0312352247%26tag=reviebymanuel-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0312352247%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">&#8220;The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792&#8211;1794&#8221; (Graeme Fife<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The old regime made a crucial error. I was educated by it as an exhibitioner at the College du Plessis. I studied there with great nobles who&#8230; lived with me on equal terms. My studies over, I was left high and dry&#8230; my former schoolfellows turned their backs on me. The Revolution came: I and all those like me threw ourselves into it. The old regime drove us to it by giving us a good education without opening opportunities for our talents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tarpipe.com\/js\/widget.js\">{title:\"Book of the Week\",url:\"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2007\/03\/10\/book-of-the-week-2\/\"}<\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Jacques Danton gave a simple explanation why his generation of young professionals embarked on the French Revolution.  Quoted in &#8220;The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792&#8211;1794&#8221; (Graeme Fife):The old regime made a crucial error&#8230;.  The old regime drove us to it by giving us a good education without opening opportunities for our talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"textwp-1130w-autoh-image":false,"textwp-760w-autoh-image":false,"textwp-100w-100h-image":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Manuel L. Quezon III","author_link":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/author\/mlq3\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"George Jacques Danton gave a simple explanation why his generation of young professionals embarked on the French Revolution. Quoted in \"The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794\" (Graeme Fife):The old regime made a crucial error.... The old regime drove us to it by giving us a good education without opening opportunities for our&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}