{"id":3339,"date":"2025-06-29T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2025-06-29T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:54:09","slug":"how-we-are-brainwashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/how-we-are-brainwashed\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Are Brainwashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recall meeting a 14 year old American at school who could not believe no one knew who Paul Revere was (albeit now we know a woman rode further and faster than he) I told him that you cannot expect a country to teach its children about its defeats. I didn&#8217;t realise at the time that was quite an insight for a 14 year old. As I have read more over my life I realise that the joke we used to have about the Soviets teaching how they invented everything, is less of a joke now we know Persians and Arabs made huge discoveries in the 8th-10th centuries before the Crusades, in science, astronomy, medicine, optics and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The western centric discourse in our education leaves out the monstrous warring that gave the western powers their eminence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall meeting a 14 year old American at school who could not believe no one knew who Paul Revere was (albeit now we know a woman rode further and faster than he) I told him that you cannot expect a country to teach its children about its defeats. I didn&#8217;t realise at the time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1210],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-ibn-al-haytham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}