{"id":3497,"date":"2025-09-21T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:46:03","slug":"all-is-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/all-is-human\/","title":{"rendered":"All is Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the academics of the world and the brilliant commentators on every aspect of human behaviour &#8211; but I do know about populations and there is not just a tendency but as acceptance to judge other countries, other &#8216;tribes&#8217; other &#8216;peoples&#8217; as distinct. They are not. We are all human beings and everything ever done by any group in history anywhere on the planet is a part of my human history. You cannot cut me off from slavers or slaves, from Romans or Greeks, Mongols or other empire builders. I have been a part of the writing of laws and the fighting of wars. I have died a million times and given birth a million more. I am stupid and wise, victor and vanquished, enlightened and utterly foolish.<\/p>\n<p>When we point with fingers we are using the fingers of those we are pointing at.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto (I am a human being, I think nothing human is foreign to me)<\/p>\n<p>Terence (attrib)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wgl-title css-i3irj7\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the academics of the world and the brilliant commentators on every aspect of human behaviour &#8211; but I do know about populations and there is not just a tendency but as acceptance to judge other countries, other &#8216;tribes&#8217; other &#8216;peoples&#8217; as distinct. They are not. We are all human beings and&#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":[1279,1280,706],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-homo-sum","tag-humani-nihil-a-me-alienum-puto","tag-terence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","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=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}