{"id":93737,"date":"2025-06-19T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93737"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:12:06","slug":"the-guns-of-the-south-checkmate-alt-hist-plausibility-sticklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/the-guns-of-the-south-checkmate-alt-hist-plausibility-sticklers\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Guns of the South<\/em>: Checkmate, Alt-Hist Plausibility Sticklers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqH7k-Xrujg?si=CS7FKVaQnChkWJ6i\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 24 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>Harry Turtledove&#8217;s <em>The Guns of the South<\/em> gives us a look at a victorious Confederate States as they grapple with the consequences of slavery, war, and the challenges of building a new nation. It also skewers a favorite activity of alt-history readers, the nitpicking of plausibility in the points of divergence, by dropping South African time travelers with AKs into the middle of the Civil War.  <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:08 America Will Break<br \/>\n04:49 Right and Left<br \/>\n05:36 CSA at odds with AWB<br \/>\n08:08 Forrest<br \/>\n10:16 Technology<br \/>\n13:16 &#8220;Why then &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 24 Jan 2025 Harry Turtledove&#8217;s The Guns of the South gives us a look at a victorious Confederate States as they grapple with the consequences of slavery, war, and the challenges of building a new nation. It also skewers a favorite activity of alt-history readers, the nitpicking of plausibility in the points [&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":[362,32,7,5,13,663],"tags":[898,650,1593,49,99,85],"class_list":["post-93737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-alternativehistory","tag-civilwar","tag-feralhistorian","tag-guns","tag-racism","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-onT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93737","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=93737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93738,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93737\/revisions\/93738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}