{"id":33123,"date":"2020-03-15T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=33123"},"modified":"2020-03-15T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T13:00:29","slug":"know-your-history-the-invisible-hand-of-conquest-how-smallpox-defeated-armies-toppled-empires-changed-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/know-your-history-the-invisible-hand-of-conquest-how-smallpox-defeated-armies-toppled-empires-changed-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your History: The Invisible Hand of Conquest \u2013 How Smallpox Defeated Armies, Toppled Empires &amp; Changed History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Getting a Big Picture understanding of how contagions have shaped our history can put things in perspective.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2020\/03\/14\/the-invisible-hand-of-conquest-how-smallpox-defeated-armies-toppled-empires-changed-history\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/militaryhistorynow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NewWorld.png?quality=80&amp;ssl=1&amp;strip=info&amp;w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIts presence shaped the fate of North America fully as much as any bullets, blades or bayonets.\u201d By John Danielski THE CORONA VIRUS is not the first contagion to threaten the stability of civilization. Throughout history, disease has often functioned\u2026 Read more \u2192 The post The Invisible Hand of Conquest \u2013 How Smallpox Defeated\u00a0Armies,\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2020\/03\/14\/the-invisible-hand-of-conquest-how-smallpox-defeated-armies-toppled-empires-changed-history\/\">The Invisible Hand of Conquest \u2013 How Smallpox Defeated Armies, Toppled Empires &amp; Changed History \u2014 MilitaryHistoryNow.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a Big Picture understanding of how contagions have shaped our history can put things in perspective. &nbsp; \u201cIts presence shaped the fate of North America fully as much as any bullets, blades or bayonets.\u201d By John Danielski THE CORONA VIRUS is not the first contagion to threaten the stability of civilization. Throughout history, disease&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4134,4048,475,476,477,478,479,6096],"tags":[7924,7925,763,7926],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}