{"id":668,"date":"2019-09-15T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=668"},"modified":"2019-09-15T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:56:18","slug":"charles-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/15\/charles-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the first things I found to be interesting was the fact that \u201cGet History\u201d article uses the phrases \u201cpresent himself\u201d and \u201cpaint himself\u201d as if what he was doing was not a true depiction of who he was. Along with this, as using his rhetoric to persuade the people. This made me think of Charles I as more manipulative. However, going on to see how he was God-fearing and constantly did things to look out for his son\u2019s future made me think differently. I do not think that Charles I should have been executed but I also do not think he should have continued to be king. It seems like his execution wasn\u2019t solely due to his activities with warfare, but as a response to his overall relationship with Parliament. Charles\u2019 judgement wasn\u2019t the best, and he does not seem like the decisions that he was making were for the good of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, if it was a direct response to whatever conspiracies with Scotland and his bad decision making with war, then it would make more sense, although still not morally justified. It seems like this is what parliament was banking on for his execution. However, because it does not seem like he was making the best decisions during such troubling times he should not have been king, but I do not believe that is grounds for execution. Both arguments, to kill or not to kill, can be understood however I can more easily see the not to kill, and parliamentary conspiracy argument. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things I found to be interesting was the fact that \u201cGet History\u201d article uses the phrases \u201cpresent himself\u201d and \u201cpaint himself\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/15\/charles-i-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles I<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103392,68041],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-12-04","tag-12-class","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}