{"id":236,"date":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/nikki-haley-declines-to-say-slavery-was-cause-of-us-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","slug":"nikki-haley-declines-to-say-slavery-was-cause-of-us-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/nikki-haley-declines-to-say-slavery-was-cause-of-us-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley declines to say slavery was cause of US civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate discussed role of government, not slavery, in response to voter asking about reason for war<\/p>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declined to specify that slavery was a cause of the civil war on Wednesday, wading into an area of history that continues to reverberate and in some ways define US politics nearly 160 years after it concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, the former governor of South Carolina where the first shots of the north-south conflict were fired by Confederate soldiers in April, 1861, was asked by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the war but didn\u2019t mention slavery in her response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/28\/nikki-haley-civil-war-slavery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate discussed role of government, not slavery, in response to voter asking about reason for war Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declined to specify that slavery was a cause of the civil war on Wednesday, wading into an area of history that continues to reverberate and in some ways define US politics nearly &#8230; <a title=\"Nikki Haley declines to say slavery was cause of US civil war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/nikki-haley-declines-to-say-slavery-was-cause-of-us-civil-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nikki Haley declines to say slavery was cause of US civil war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}