{"id":135163,"date":"2017-10-25T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135163"},"modified":"2017-10-25T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:10:22","slug":"true-history-false-history-lost-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/true-history-false-history-lost-cause.html","title":{"rendered":"The True History of the False History of the &#8220;Lost Cause&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignatius Loyola, the founder the Jesuits, famously said in the 16th Century, &#8220;Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Daughters of the Confederacy took that lesson and ran with it, with effects that last down to the present day (and, sadly, will continue to last into an indefinite future).<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOkFXPblLpU\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ATAT5eNoqb1\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignatius Loyola, the founder the Jesuits, famously said in the 16th Century, &#8220;Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.&#8221; 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