{"id":590,"date":"2026-08-25T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:15:19","slug":"history-repeats-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"History repeats itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The welfare state is eating America &#8212; now 6 times bigger than the defense budget.<br><br>In Rome the political promises outran production. Inflation bought time, at the expense of collapsed production that accelerated the fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xoDP0BKD5Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/xoDP0BKD5Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/profstonge\/status\/2092251142386299229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-rome-in-the-21st-century"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}