{"id":326,"date":"2007-07-22T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T12:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T12:25:38","slug":"a-thought-on-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"A thought on history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The point of history is surely, still, to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2005\/09\/07\/als-eigentlich-gewesen\/#comment-98035\">what actually happened<\/a> but the past can only be understood if we know what actually didn&#8217;t happen. People&#8217;s actions, their understandings of the world, can only be understood in the light of what they expected from it; though these expectations were almost certainly wrong, and, in after life shaming and embarrassing, they have to be reconstructed if we are to understand human history. Short form: all hopes, all fears, entail false beliefs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point of history is surely, still, to discover what actually happened but the past can only be understood if we know what actually didn&#8217;t happen. People&#8217;s actions, their understandings of the world, can only be understood in the light &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}