{"id":90,"date":"2010-01-15T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=90"},"modified":"2010-01-15T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:00:57","slug":"great-compromiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2010\/01\/15\/great-compromiser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Compromiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Millard Fillmore, born in a log cabin, the thirteenth president, cursed his predecessor. If Taylor had not died his second year in office, Fillmore would not be in this mess.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was California.  A remote territory infested with Indians and Mexicans.  Who would ever want to live there?<\/p>\n<p>But the South wanted a new Slave state and the North was adamantly opposed.  There was talk of secession.<\/p>\n<p>Fillmore sought a compromise.  Let a future president worry over the problem. If the Union dissolved under his watch, his legacy would be ruined.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing mattered more to Fillmore than his legacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Genre: Historical Fiction<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millard Fillmore, born in a log cabin, the thirteenth president, cursed his predecessor. If Taylor had not died his second year in office, Fillmore would not be in this mess. The problem was California. A remote territory infested with Indians and Mexicans. Who would ever want to live there? But the South wanted a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105,104,102,103],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-california","tag-compromise","tag-historical-fiction","tag-millard-fillmore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}