{"id":12705,"date":"2016-03-17T14:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T06:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2016-03-17T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T06:10:39","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/03\/17\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"history is an underrated source of insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I think history is interesting. It&#8217;s like\u00a0binge-watching old seasons of current affairs \u2013 we get to go through a lot more drama all at once, and we get to learn a bunch of things about how and why things are they way they are. I&#8217;m using this blogpost to catalogue my progress in appreciating history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My rough guesses:<\/p>\n<p>Rome: 750BC to 400BC<\/p>\n<p>Greek Civilization: 1000 BC?<\/p>\n<p>Printing Press: (guess: 1600?) 1440<\/p>\n<p>Renaissance: (guess: 1600s?) 1300 to 1700<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think history is interesting. It&#8217;s like\u00a0binge-watching old seasons of current affairs \u2013 we get to go through a lot more drama all at once, and we get to learn a bunch of things about how and why things are they way they are. I&#8217;m using this blogpost to catalogue&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[601,577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-perception"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-history","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}