{"id":30555,"date":"2016-08-10T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=30555"},"modified":"2016-08-10T07:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:37:42","slug":"but-who-needs-who-is-it-the-state-that-needs-the-historian-or-the-historian-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=30555","title":{"rendered":"\u201eBut who needs who? Is it the state that needs the historian, or the historian the state?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One is tempted to side with Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s riposte to Ivy historians (like me) who want to play the role of prophet: &#8222;We\u2019re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That\u2019s what it is to be alive. It\u2019s pretty dense kids who haven\u2019t figured that out by the time they\u2019re 10. &#8230; Most kids can\u2019t afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this sense, being misinformed might be the good news.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Adelman<br \/>\n\u201e<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Who-Needs-Historians-\/237415\"><strong>Who Needs Historians?<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One is tempted to side with Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s riposte to Ivy historians (like me) who want to play the role of prophet: &#8222;We\u2019re doomed to repeat the past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4796,4794,4793,258,4795,312,4797],"class_list":["post-30555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inne","tag-george-santayana","tag-graham-allison","tag-jeremy-adelman","tag-muzea","tag-niall-ferguson","tag-przeszlosc","tag-the-history-manifesto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30556,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions\/30556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}