{"id":96014,"date":"2016-06-30T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=96014"},"modified":"2016-06-27T23:54:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T06:54:59","slug":"the-19th-century-american-know-nothing-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/the-19th-century-american-know-nothing-myth.html","title":{"rendered":"The 19th Century American Know Nothing Myth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/946813_681951178488940_1487657475_n.png?oh=91fb21a2fc1966c72b9575c240f70f61&amp;oe=57FBE872\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\u2026of the inexhaustible dragon\u2019s hoard of wealth in the dungeons of the Vatican is deathless. Compare and contrast (courtesy of John Allen, Jr.):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Operating Budget:\u00a0 (Vatican) $300 million\u00a0 Harvard ($3.7 billion)<\/li>\n<li>Endowment\/Patrimony: (Vatican) $1 billion; Harvard ($30.7 billion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Americans remain country yokels at heart when it comes to Catholic stuff. \u00a0We still believe all that 19th century stuff about curtain-gliding Italian Jesuits and their vast riches, long after we ourselves have become the sleek fat superpower of Mammon.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026of the inexhaustible dragon\u2019s hoard of wealth in the dungeons of the Vatican is deathless. Compare and contrast (courtesy of John Allen, Jr.): Operating Budget:\u00a0 (Vatican) $300 million\u00a0 Harvard ($3.7 billion) Endowment\/Patrimony: (Vatican) $1 billion; Harvard ($30.7 billion) Americans remain country yokels at heart when it comes to Catholic stuff. \u00a0We still believe all that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-96014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-last-acceptable-prejudice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The 19th Century American Know Nothing Myth...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...of the inexhaustible dragon&#039;s hoard of wealth in the dungeons of the Vatican is deathless. 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