{"id":286,"date":"2006-09-09T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=286"},"modified":"2006-09-09T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T05:10:25","slug":"colonial-bloggers-and-the-founding-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Bloggers and the Founding Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic<\/A> when I realized that political bloggers, far from being a new phenomenon, were an integral part of the national thought life that formented the American Revolution. They may not have been logging onto laptops via wi-fi to change the world, but they were just as subversive, unregulated, influential, and wildly speculative. Sometimes referred to as ‘pamphleteers’, they were often anonymous, took advantage of new media, displayed wide-ranging bias, and used humor as a weapon. Multimedia variants included engravers like Paul Revere, whose inaccurate portrayal of the Boston Massacre still holds great sway. <\/p>\n

To read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense<\/em>, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To read a few current ‘pamphleteers’, check out Polliblogger<\/a> or Wonkette<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic when I realized that political bloggers, far from being a new phenomenon, were an integral part of the national thought life that formented the American Revolution. They may not have been logging onto laptops via wi-fi to change the world, but they … Continue reading Colonial Bloggers and the Founding Fathers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-4C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}