{"id":593,"date":"2026-08-28T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:02:09","slug":"ancient-rome-again-resonates-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Rome again resonates TODAY"},"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\">On the Newsletter: <br>$40 Trillion Debt puts Nero to Shame<br><br>For Rome what came next was ugly. Prices rose by 1,000%. Trade shifted to barter. The tax base evaporated. The empire collapsed.<br><br>The only way out is what Congress will never do: Cut spending.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QnsJxqJe6L\">https:\/\/t.co\/QnsJxqJe6L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T07TYJ43qz\">pic.twitter.com\/T07TYJ43qz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/profstonge\/status\/2093300058535936408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/profstonge\/status\/2093300058535936408<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","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\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}