{"id":34367,"date":"2016-03-17T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34367"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:02:55","slug":"coolidge-the-best-president-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/coolidge-the-best-president-you-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Coolidge: The Best President You Don&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dcINPY21pVA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 4 May 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Americans today place enormous pressure on presidents to &#8220;do something&#8221;&#8230;anything, to get the economy going. There was one president, though, Calvin Coolidge, who did &#8220;nothing&#8221; &mdash; other than shrink government. What happened? America&#8217;s economy boomed. Is there a lesson to be learned? Award-winning author, historian, and biographer Amity Shlaes thinks so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 4 May 2015 Americans today place enormous pressure on presidents to &#8220;do something&#8221;&#8230;anything, to get the economy going. There was one president, though, Calvin Coolidge, who did &#8220;nothing&#8221; &mdash; other than shrink government. What happened? America&#8217;s economy boomed. Is there a lesson to be learned? Award-winning author, historian, and biographer Amity Shlaes thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[25,7,41,13],"tags":[883],"class_list":["post-34367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-calvincoolidge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Wj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367","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=34367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34368,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367\/revisions\/34368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}