{"id":5,"date":"2026-11-01T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/national-character\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:15:50","slug":"national-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/national-character\/","title":{"rendered":"National Character: Is There Such a Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sd-placeholder\">Placeholder &mdash; demo desk. Sample text that shows how a desk piece is laid out. It is not a published position of this block or of the ASA.<\/p><p class=\"sd-byline\">By Citadel Desk (demo)<\/p><p class=\"sd-dek\">Whether a people has a character, and how anyone would know.<\/p><p>This slot holds an essay on national character: whether the phrase names something real, and if so where it shows. In habits, in institutions, or in what a people will not tolerate.<\/p><p>The finished piece will argue from history and from observation, and will say plainly where it is offering opinion. This text is a placeholder.<\/p><h2>What the finished piece will cover<\/h2><ul><li>What earlier writers meant by national character.<\/li><li>The evidence for and against it.<\/li><li>What follows for citizenship if it is real.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"sd-draft-note\">Writer&rsquo;s brief for this slot: an essay, about 1,800 words, opinion marked as opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether a people has a character, and how anyone would know. A placeholder for a desk essay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/national-character\/\">Read the piece<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Character: Is There Such a Thing?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placeholder","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silencedogood.antisocialists.site\/citadel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}