{"id":17294,"date":"2018-05-10T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2018-05-10T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T21:36:10","slug":"twittering-through-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/05\/10\/twittering-through-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;twittering&#8221; through history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Surveying\u00c2\u00a0the diaries of an ancestral relative.\u00c2\u00a0 A frequent lament of the current era of social media has it that people drop in with banalities &#8212; oh, the lunch you are right now eating.\u00c2\u00a0 I am reminded of that here, and have a sense that maybe when later ages excavate such tweets, it won&#8217;t be anything new.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Curious to see if she had any observations on the events of the big days, I flip about &#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Sun Dec 7,1941<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Mass.\u00c2\u00a0 9:30.\u00c2\u00a0 Jane came and took us to their house for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 We took Aunt Ceal to the car and came home after some grocery shopping.\u00c2\u00a0 Japan started war on U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 Lovely weather<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I don&#8217;t think the war is mentioned again, but I suppose I should check in on VE and VJ days.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely she would have taken note of the atomic bomb, but my best guess is &#8230; it wasn&#8217;t important enough for this.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveying\u00c2\u00a0the diaries of an ancestral relative.\u00c2\u00a0 A frequent lament of the current era of social media has it that people drop in with banalities &#8212; oh, the lunch you are right now eating.\u00c2\u00a0 I am reminded of that here, and have a sense that maybe when later ages excavate such tweets, it won&#8217;t be anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17300,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions\/17300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}