{"id":388,"date":"2016-03-27T20:10:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=388"},"modified":"2016-03-27T20:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:10:37","slug":"the-origin-of-the-american-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/03\/27\/the-origin-of-the-american-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"The origin of the American caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe origin of the American caucus<br \/>\ndates back to Revolutionary days, being<br \/>\ntraced to the Caucus club of Boston.<br \/>\nThis club was composed mainly\u00a0 of per-<br \/>\nsons engaged in shipbuilding. It was<br \/>\none of the most radical opponents of<br \/>\nBritish oppression. The Caucus club<br \/>\nand the Merchants&#8217; club of the same<br \/>\nperiod used to meet before elections<br \/>\nand agree on candidates for town and<br \/>\nprovincial offices. \u201cCaucus\u201d is believed<br \/>\nto be a corruption of \u201ccaulkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Found in the Healdsburg Enterprise, 15 January 1916.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of the American caucus dates back to Revolutionary days, being traced to the Caucus club of Boston. This club was composed mainly\u00a0 of per- sons engaged in shipbuilding. It was one of the most radical opponents of British oppression. The Caucus club and the Merchants&#8217; club of the same period used to meet &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/03\/27\/the-origin-of-the-american-caucus\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-388","7":"format-standard","8":"category-california-newspaper-archive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}