{"id":142,"date":"2021-01-09T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/?p=142"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T13:22:20","slug":"january-6th-2021-triumph-or-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/2021\/01\/09\/january-6th-2021-triumph-or-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"January 6th, 2021: Triumph or Tragedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/533413-january-6-should-be-remembered-as-a-story-of-triumph-not-trauma?rnd=1610141109\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/533413-january-6-should-be-remembered-as-a-story-of-triumph-not-trauma?rnd=1610141109\">The Hill<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/shai-dromi\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sociology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/shai-dromi\">Shai M. Dromi<\/a> compares the events of January 6th, 2021 to historical moments of political instability.  He concludes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Instead, the narrative could focus on the American public\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2021\/jan\/07\/democratic-republican-senators-unite-condemn-us-capitol-violence-video\" target=\"_blank\">almost unanimous rejection<\/a> of violent solutions to democratic challenges and the remarkable energy with which <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/06\/congress-electoral-college-vote-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congress returned to counting the electoral votes<\/a>. Making this a story of triumph, rather than trauma, will bolster faith in democracy for generations to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Hill, Shai M. Dromi compares the events of January 6th, 2021 to historical moments of political instability. He concludes: Instead, the narrative could focus on the American public\u2019s almost unanimous rejection of violent solutions to democratic challenges and the remarkable energy with which Congress returned to counting the electoral votes. Making this a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/chsatssha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}