{"id":2375,"date":"2023-02-02T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:06:29","slug":"how-do-we-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/how-do-we-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Remember?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that is the corollary of &#8216;what do we choose to remember&#8217;. As nations we decided this long ago with the way in which we teach history to children; the overriding aim of which is the past was nationalistic and today seeks to arouse deep patriotism as a default position.<\/p>\n<p>How we remember things &#8211; from the Cenotaph in London to festivals around the world both happy and sad, is very hit-and-miss. If we had chosen to remember in the UK the Napoleonic dead which took 50% of the male population of the country in 15 years, more than WWI as a percentage, we might not have been drawn into WWI &#8211; and the Cenotaph remembers the 20th century more than any other, or any other war. It has as much right to remember the Chinese dead as ours.<\/p>\n<p>Our memories as nations are jingoistic in essence because we fail to realise that every memory is our human inheritance against which idea, national festivals are insignificant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that is the corollary of &#8216;what do we choose to remember&#8217;. As nations we decided this long ago with the way in which we teach history to children; the overriding aim of which is the past was nationalistic and today seeks to arouse deep patriotism as a default position. How we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[493,712],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-napoleon","tag-the-cenotaph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}