{"id":51,"date":"2011-04-10T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-04-10T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:51:06","slug":"thoughts-on-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/04\/thoughts-on-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on history"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We learn from history &#8211; that we don&#8217;t learn from history.<\/li>\n<li>A man that ignores history is bound to make the same mistakes again.<\/li>\n<li>Our children try so hard to be &#8216;not like us&#8217; that they make all the same mistakes again&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Everything that has been will be again (except they haven&#8217;t found a fossilized Coke bottle yet&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>History is a story as told be the victors (oppose to those that lost or died)<\/li>\n<li>There is a reason &#8216;history&#8217; is spelled with 7 and &#8216;future&#8217; with only 6 letters&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learn from history &#8211; that we don&#8217;t learn from history. A man that ignores history is bound to make the same mistakes again. Our children try so hard to be &#8216;not like us&#8217; that they make all the same &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/04\/thoughts-on-history\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}