{"id":1917099,"date":"2023-04-20T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clueless-classical-ed-critics-accidentally-make-a-killer-case-for-it\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:15:04","slug":"clueless-classical-ed-critics-accidentally-make-a-killer-case-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clueless-classical-ed-critics-accidentally-make-a-killer-case-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Clueless Classical Ed Critics Accidentally Make A Killer Case For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclueless-classical-ed-critics-accidentally-make-a-killer-case-for-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>With one small hiatus, I\u2019ve spent the better part of the last 20 years involved in classical education. My own children have received a classical education, and being intimately familiar with the classical model, I\u2019m a big believer in this particular approach to learning.<\/p>\n<p>So when I noticed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648422286557585410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a popular thread<\/a> on what is (unfortunately) the internet\u2019s most influential website, purporting to demystify the growing interest in classical ed, it naturally caught my attention. With the failures of public education becoming more evident daily, the interest in classical ed has suddenly become intense. Obviously, I was curious about what people were saying.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-680091458\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a58c0ef01db352588d922dd70052ff5f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a58c0ef01db352588d922dd70052ff5f\"><\/div>\n<p>But upon reading the thoughts of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Harriot<\/a> \u2014 a columnist for <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Grio<\/a>, guest on MSNBC programs, \u201cboard-certified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/in-defense-of-wypipo-1797033553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wypipologist<\/a>\u201d and for our purposes \u201cguy with 500,000 Twitter followers\u201d \u2014 I was so dumbstruck all I could think of was Adam Sandler\u2019s 1995 classic film, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wKjxFJfcrcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billy Madison<\/a>,\u201d which, underneath its farcical fa\u00e7ade, is appropriately enough a clarion call for the necessity of quality education:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dead White Guys Bad<\/h2>\n<p>If you suspect I\u2019m being too harsh, I\u2019m happy to have you read the thread and come to your own conclusions. Regardless, let\u2019s taste test this hellbroth of fallacies, ignorance, and ill-defined accusations of racism, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>To the extent I can pull a premise out of Harriot\u2019s mess, it seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648422316001591296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that classical education<\/a> \u201cdoesn\u2019t measure a student\u2019s ability to learn or teach them TO LEARN. It teaches students to learn LIKE WHITE PEOPLE LEARN who have already been deemed smart because they know white things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While obviously there are cultural differences that can affect one\u2019s learning environment, I, along with the vast majority of normal people, don\u2019t happen to believe that basic knowledge and how you go about learning it is relative to one\u2019s skin color. Yet educrats everywhere increasingly believe what Harriot is saying. For instance, a proposed California mathematics curriculum declares that focusing on students \u201cgetting the right answer,\u201d asking students to \u201cshow their work,\u201d and grading them based on their ability to do problems correctly is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/california-leftists-try-to-cancel-math-class-11621355858?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3285bf431f602af31f234f977f44726b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3285bf431f602af31f234f977f44726b\"><\/div>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s even worse in subjects that aren\u2019t as literal as math. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Rutgers\u2019 English department announced it would be rejecting traditional grammar instruction in favor of \u201ccritical grammar,\u201d yet another absurd academic idea to grow out of the Marxist \u201ccritical theory\u201d hydra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach challenges the familiar dogma that writing instruction should limit emphasis on grammar\/sentence-level issues so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard \u2018academic\u2019 English backgrounds at a disadvantage,\u201d said an email written by Rutgers English department chair Rebecca Walkowitz. \u201cInstead, it encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the variety of choices available to them [with] regard to micro-level issues in order to empower them and equip them to push against biases based on \u2018written\u2019 accents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the extent we do have to introduce race into any of these debates, read that email again and ask yourself: Is there anything that is more a product of \u201cwhite culture\u201d run amok than this obtuse academese? If Walkowitz were forced to explain what she was doing here with any actual directness and clarity it would be even more obviously patronizing and stupid than it already is.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m not honestly sure Harriot himself understands the value of written communication, period. See, classical education is bad because it requires different people to learn the same skills. To prove his point he tells the story of his cousin who apparently had perfect pitch and could play all kinds of music by ear. But when he made it to junior high, he couldn\u2019t get into the band because <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648422313745092609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he couldn\u2019t read music<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9485ed4b17211a733eb898e19563a7dc fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9485ed4b17211a733eb898e19563a7dc\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>His problem was not that he couldn\u2019t read music\u2026 It was that he couldn\u2019t learn the method of translating sounds (notes, treble clefs, etc) that was created for PEOPLE WHO DON\u2019T KNOW HOW TO do what he does. I\u2019d argue that playing music by ear is ACTUALLY READING MUSIC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While musicians who can\u2019t read music may thrive in certain contexts, there are many, many reasons that are as specific as they are obvious why reading music would be a prerequisite for getting 30 kids in a school band to play together. Regardless, follow the logic here: If it\u2019s better to play by ear than to read music, then it\u2019s better to be illiterate for speech, too. Written communication is just for people who don\u2019t know how to talk and memorize speeches. People who talk and don\u2019t write are ACTUALLY writing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, being asked to demonstrate objective facts and learn shared rules of language to promote mutual understanding was universally understood to be an essential part of <em>all<\/em> forms of education until about 15 minutes ago. Claiming this feature is unique to classical education, let alone that this is \u201cracism,\u201d is equal parts dishonest and insulting.<\/p>\n<p>So then, what exactly does Harriot think classical education is? Harriot claims he had a \u201cclassical education,\u201d but that appears to just be shorthand for the fact that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648422290252759040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my mom was big on the classics<\/a>,\u201d whatever that means. He knows enough to namecheck Dorothy Sayers, who wrote the essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pccs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LostToolsOfLearning-DorothySayers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Lost Tools of Learning<\/a>,\u201d which was very influential in the classical ed movement. He also briefly mentions the Socratic method and posts a graphic illustrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Trivium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Trivium<\/a>, but he doesn\u2019t go into specifics of any of this.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, he\u2019s doing all of this on Twitter so perhaps he can be forgiven for not getting granular. Except that what he does settle on as defining classical ed is little more than something, something, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648422319763910656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dead white guys bad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>But there\u2019s a bigger reason why Classical Education is a sham \u2026 ALL THOSE PEOPLE ARE DUMB.\u00a0All those philosophers from Greece and Rome \u2026 were wrong. They thought the sun revolved around the earth. They thought the moon was a star. They didn\u2019t know things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you suspect Harriot is the one who doesn\u2019t know things, well, come collect your prize. Let me introduce you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Aristarchus_of_Samos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aristarchus of Samos<\/a>, \u201can ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.\u201d Aristarchus wasn\u2019t the only Greek to say this, either. According to Plutarch, another Greek astronomer, Seleucus of Seleucia, demonstrated that the earth revolved around the sun a century later than Aristarchus, though no record of his proof survives.<\/p>\n<p>Aristarchus also made key discoveries about the size of the moon and the sun, as well as how far away they were from the earth. Copernicus and Tycho Brahe made major discoveries about astronomy utilizing Aristarchus\u2019 work because they weren\u2019t arrogant enough to decide he \u201cdidn\u2019t know things\u201d merely because he lived 1,800 years before they did. I mean, can you believe this rube couldn\u2019t prove his theories about stellar parallax just because telescopes hadn\u2019t been invented yet?<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s acknowledge that ancient Greek civilization had a very limited understanding of a great many things compared to what we possess today. It would still be the height of hubris to conclude that, as a result, their actual intelligence was limited compared to ours. The fact I can go buy a scientific calculator that can do calculus with the push of a button does not mean I am a better mathematician than Aristarchus.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, I\u2019m also somewhat uncertain about why Harriot makes this claim about the ancient Greeks being \u201cdumb,\u201d because later on he says they only were smart because they got all their ideas from Africa: \u201cNow here\u2019s the thing about Classical Education.\u00a0When they talk about the Greeks and the Romans, they\u2019re talking about people who GOT THEIR EDUCATION FROM BLACK PEOPLE. And I know y\u2019all like to think that Egyptians weren\u2019t Black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, yes, ancient Egyptian culture obviously influenced ancient Greece. While ancient Egyptian civilization had black people, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by no means racially homogenous<\/a>. And it\u2019s ridiculous to say that the Greeks, from Aristophanes to Aristotle to Aristarchus, don\u2019t deserve a whole lot of credit for their own achievements. Then again, Harriot says some Greek guy named \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648430840677040128\">Herodetous<\/a>\u201d may have been racist so, what do I know?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Laid Before the Freedmen\u2019s Sons\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>At this point, I\u2019m probably putting more effort into making sense of these ramblings on classical education than they deserve. But it\u2019s really striking how much his critique of education is really at heart a plea to use education as political programming, whether Harriot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelharriot\/status\/1648422323907870721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">understands this or not<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><em>Education evolves. But if your foundation, like Classical Education, is built on ingesting and regurgitating sh-t smart people say, it becomes HARDER to progress as a society. Unless, of course, progress is not your goal. If your goal is to ensure that white people are smart, then Classical Education works great.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m not exactly sure what this garbled tautology is trying to say, except to say that American education has been very deliberately \u201cprogressive\u201d for around a century, and for at least the last 50 years education standards in this country have been steadily and alarmingly declining, even as we spend more and more money on education. It\u2019s not as if any honest person can claim the problem is that our curricula are too rigid and conservative, or that our schools aren\u2019t stocked with people who are determined to impart these progressive ideals on children.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, there\u2019s a disturbing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthisdeity.com\/17th-april-1975-%E2%80%93-pol-pots-year-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Year Zero zealotry<\/a> at work here \u2014 or perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Year_One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Year One<\/a>, if going all the way back to the 18th century isn\u2019t too \u201cclassical\u201d \u2014 that seems to believe progress can only occur ex nihilo, after erasing what happened in the past. (Forgive the lapse into Latin there. I\u2019ll try to do better.)  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a Classic education, you might start music that evokes MORE EMOTION than the Beethoven with words that Shakespeare didn\u2019t and engineer an entirely different form of recording. Or you might invent a cotton gin or a light bulb or a whole genre that WHITE PEOPLE CAN\u2019T DO,\u201d Harriot writes. <\/p>\n<p>Part of me wants to just say, \u201cForget it, he\u2019s rolling.\u201d Instead, I\u2019ll just note that it doesn\u2019t take away from Tupac\u2019s reputation as a hip-hop trailblazer to note <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ksBTXQdc5Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he wasn\u2019t above quoting \u201cMacBeth.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s ridiculous and tiresome to pretend that knowledge of the great thinkers of the past will do anything but spark the creativity of the future.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s odd about objecting to classical education through such a racialized lens is that it runs contrary to important historical education debates the black community has already had. Famously, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realcleareducation.com\/articles\/2022\/02\/18\/web_du_boiss_enduring_education_debate_with_booker_t_washington_110703.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a pretty illuminating and relevant debate<\/a>. Washington argued for black people to focus on learning economically valuable trades and founded the Tuskegee Institute, and while Washington did amazing work providing educational opportunities for black Americans, Du Bois argued more was needed.<\/p>\n<p>David Withun, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/co-workers-in-the-kingdom-of-culture-9780197579589?facet_narrowbybinding_facet=Ebook&#038;facet_narrowbyproducttype_facet=Print&#038;lang=en&#038;cc=us\">Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>,\u201d notes Du Bois believed the intellectual, as well as economic, liberation of black Americans was dependent on access to history\u2019s greatest minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls,\u201d Du Bois wrote. \u201cFrom out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed Earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the veil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so Du Bois, the first black Harvard Ph.D., was a big proponent of classical education and urged that black kids read everything from Cicero to Dante.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing new, no-time saving devices \u2014 simply old time-glorified methods of delving for Truth, and searching out the hidden beauties of life, and learning the good living,\u201d is how Du Bois described what he was teaching at Atlanta University. \u201cThe riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is today laid before the freedmen\u2019s sons at Atlanta University.\u201d Unfortunately, despite his best efforts, black Americans have never received the kind of education Du Bois hoped for in any significant numbers. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt in my mind Du Bois and Harriot would agree that more than a century later, there\u2019s still an urgent need to make sure black Americans get the best education possible and that what they\u2019ve been getting has been terrible for quite some time. The difference is that, unlike Du Bois, I\u2019m sad to report Harriot and nearly all of his fellow travelers have absolutely no concept of what a quality education even looks like.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d5ae395549823b5b96667e9d75ade85c fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d5ae395549823b5b96667e9d75ade85c\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Mark Hemingway is the Book Editor at The Federalist, and was formerly a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. Follow him on Twitter at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/heminator\">@heminator<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/aristarchus\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Aristarchus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/booker-t-washington\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Booker T. Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/classical-education\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">classical education<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/critical-theory\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Critical theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/education-2\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">education<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/race\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Race<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/some-greek-guy-named-herodetous\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">some Greek guy named \u201cHerodetous\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/w-e-b-du-bois\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one small hiatus, I\u2019ve spent the better part of the last 20 years involved in classical education. My own children have received a classical education, and being intimately familiar with the classical model, I\u2019m a big believer in this particular approach to learning. So when I noticed a popular thread on what is (unfortunately)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1917100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[19305,14612,13102,4365,6843],"class_list":["post-1917099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-clueless","tag-accidentally","tag-classical","tag-critics","tag-killer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}