{"id":292,"date":"2008-03-12T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T11:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=292"},"modified":"2009-01-16T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:08:57","slug":"a-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A Modest Proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/swift_modest_proposal_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/swift_modest_proposal_cover.jpg\" alt=\"A Modest Proposal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/generator\/swift_modest_proposal_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/generator\/swift_modest_proposal_US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Letter<\/a> PDF 341Kb<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong> : <em>A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public<\/em> \u2013 Swift&#8217;s biting satire on social inequality and the political expediency of charity and the Poor Laws.<\/p>\n<p>First Published 1729<br \/>\nPublic Domain Text from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Swift\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Swift<\/a> (1664-1745) was an Anglican clergyman, satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer most famous for his <em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A4 | US Letter PDF 341Kb About : A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,143],"tags":[394,147],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-short-work","tag-jonathan-swift","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}