{"id":26802,"date":"2014-07-14T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26802"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:23:28","slug":"qotd-revolutionary-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/qotd-revolutionary-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Revolutionary formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bastille Day! A day to remind ourselves yet again of the age-old formula that Revolution equals Political Inexperience times Zeal times Stupid Theory times Testosterone. Or <strong>R = PIZST2<\/strong>, if you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>The French Revolution \u2014 in which virtually all the revolutionary leaders were men under 40 \u2014 makes the point perfectly. But you can try the same game with revolutions of your own choice, and in the privacy of your home.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Norman, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jessenorman\/100279803\/bastille-day-a-time-to-remember-the-magazine-of-wisdom-that-was-edmund-burke\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Bastille Day! A time to remember the &#8216;magazine of wisdom&#8217; that was Edmund Burke&#8221;, <em>Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bastille Day! A day to remind ourselves yet again of the age-old formula that Revolution equals Political Inexperience times Zeal times Stupid Theory times Testosterone. Or R = PIZST2, if you prefer. The French Revolution \u2014 in which virtually all the revolutionary leaders were men under 40 \u2014 makes the point perfectly. But you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[62,1117,7,57,41],"tags":[506],"class_list":["post-26802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-revolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26803,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802\/revisions\/26803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}