{"id":1035,"date":"2009-12-08T00:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/12\/08\/de-jure-belli-ac-pacis\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T00:32:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:32:42","slug":"de-jure-belli-ac-pacis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1035","title":{"rendered":"De jure belli ac pacis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed to discover that my copy of <em>War and Peace<\/em> is \u201cedited for the modern reader.\u201d Should have realized it much sooner, since it\u2019s \u201conly\u201d 741 pages long. Nevertheless, I\u2019m feasting on the translation with immense pleasure, while at the same time skimming General Armand de Caulaincourt\u2019s memoir, <em>With Napoleon in Russia.<\/em> I don\u2019t know why I dart around like this, just when I was beginning to take a new interest in the American Revolution. Perhaps this will bring me around again to our second war with Great Britain, or a fresh look at Tecumseh. 1812 was certainly a landmark year, and right at the heart of my favorite period in our national story. I shall never exhaust my curiosity with this era. But here\u2019s the real question\u2014 How can I turn my attention away from the works of Tolstoy? He understood, as Shakespeare did, just about everything there was to know about anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed to discover that my copy of War and Peace is \u201cedited for the modern reader.\u201d Should have realized it much sooner, since it\u2019s \u201conly\u201d 741 pages long. Nevertheless, I\u2019m feasting on the translation with immense pleasure, while at the same time skimming General Armand de Caulaincourt\u2019s memoir, With Napoleon in Russia. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,11,16,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}