{"id":938,"date":"2010-10-30T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/10\/30\/historical-perspective\/"},"modified":"2011-04-22T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T03:02:22","slug":"historical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/10\/30\/historical-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone tells you that political campagins are nastier now than they&#8217;ve ever been before, just laugh. They need some historical perspective:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 420px; height: 240px;\" width=\"420\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_zTN4BXvYI?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_zTN4BXvYI?version=3\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You should also laugh if anyone talks about &#8220;the good old days&#8221; or suggests things are worse now than ever before, or that the world is getting worse and worse.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a little knowledge of history is a wonderful antidote.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone tells you that political campagins are nastier now than they&#8217;ve ever been before, just laugh. They need some historical perspective: You should also laugh if anyone talks about &#8220;the good old days&#8221; or suggests things are worse now &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/10\/30\/historical-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}