{"id":5117,"date":"2017-01-31T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T04:52:51","slug":"when-some-people-declare-that-historical-novels-are-neither-interesting-nor-relevant-to-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/when-some-people-declare-that-historical-novels-are-neither-interesting-nor-relevant-to-modern-life\/","title":{"rendered":"When People Declare That Historical Novels Are Neither Interesting Nor Relevant To Modern Life &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 I think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org\/blog\/churchill-quote-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Winston Churchill after the war<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Churchill worried not so much that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it, but that the loss of the past would mean &#8216;the most thoughtless of ages. Every day headlines and short views.&#8217; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Freedom-is-in-peril-poster.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;Freedom is in peril&#039; WWII poster\" title=\"&#039;Freedom is in peril&#039; WWII poster\" width=\"319\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Freedom-is-in-peril-poster.jpg 319w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Freedom-is-in-peril-poster-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 I think of Winston Churchill after the war: Churchill worried not so much that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it, but that the loss of the past would mean &#8216;the most thoughtless of ages. Every day headlines and short views.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-montmaray-journals","category-this-writing-life","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}