{"id":31631,"date":"2014-06-08T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=31631"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:40:40","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-respect-chauvinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-respect-chauvinist\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Can you respect a chauvinist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Adam<\/a>You might be surprised to learn the word \u201cchauvinist\u201d is based on a person\u2019s name\u2014that would be Nicolas Chauvin, of France. Chauvin was famous not for his mistreatment of women, but for his self-sacrificing patriotism. If the stories are to be believed (and some historians suggest they should not be), Chauvin was a soldier who served in the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. So fierce was his loyalty to his leader that he continued his career as a soldier even after seventeen combat wounds, including a broken shoulder, three lost fingers, and a disfiguring scar across his face. Fighting in the doomed battle at Waterloo, he is reputed to have shouted, \u201cThe Old Guard dies, but does not surrender!\u201d In the generation after Waterloo, however, Napoleon became an object of general ridicule, and Chauvin\u2019s unquestioning allegiance was popularized as an example of foolish fanaticism. It wasn\u2019t until the feminist movement in the 20th century that this term came to be applied to unthinking devotion to one\u2019s own gender.<\/p>\n

Adam the Doodles Man, $25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might be surprised to learn the word \u201cchauvinist\u201d is based on a person\u2019s name\u2014that would be Nicolas Chauvin, of France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":31636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}