{"id":294867,"date":"2026-05-24T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294867"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:37:12","slug":"the-stories-that-saved-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294867","title":{"rendered":"The Stories That Saved the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do fantastic tales have to do with the survival of our civilization? The world that plunged from one World War to the next with an economic disaster in between demanded full seriousness to survive. Storytelling could surely wait&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/05\/24\/the_stories_that_saved_the_west_700589.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do fantastic tales have to do with the survival of our civilization? The world that plunged from one World War to the next with an economic disaster in between demanded full seriousness to survive. Storytelling could surely wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294867"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=294867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}