{"id":7096,"date":"2012-01-28T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2012-01-28T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:10:13","slug":"bring-back-the-holy-roman-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/bring-back-the-holy-roman-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back the Holy Roman Empire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HRE-Flag.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7097\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"HRE Flag\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HRE-Flag-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HRE-Flag-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HRE-Flag.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to address the fundamental problem of today\u2019s Europe, it is necessary to abandon the belief that economic unity will cause political harmony. . . . Europeans will not be created by the euro and a common market, and what we have right now is a set of EU institutions with no Europeans. But to recognize this leads to the question of what Europe is, a question that neither Merkel nor Sarkozy nor Barroso are willing to ponder because they seem to have little memory of the Christian roots of Europe. Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome are seen as contemporary sources of security and fiscal problems, not as symbols of a great civilizational and religious inheritance that truly unites Europe. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpri.org\/enotes\/2012\/201201.grygiel.europe.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8212; Jakub Grygiel<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to address the fundamental problem of today\u2019s Europe, it is necessary to abandon the belief that economic unity will cause political harmony. . . . Europeans will not be created by the euro and a common market, and what we have right now is a set of EU &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Bring Back the Holy Roman Empire! - Politickles","description":"In order to address the fundamental problem of today\u2019s Europe, it is necessary to abandon the belief that economic unity will cause political harmony. . . . Eur"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3549,3547,3548,3550],"class_list":["post-7096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-euro","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-holy-roman-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}