{"id":3368,"date":"2012-03-15T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:45:40","slug":"reenactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/reenactors\/","title":{"rendered":"reenactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1214_0013-albco-courthouse.jpg\" alt=\"confederate\" ><br \/>\nOur City is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. That is put into perspective when one sees a 30th generation Japanese rice farmer displaced from ancestral fields by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear melt.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t have that sort of multi-generational continuity here. We don&#8217;t have any 250 year old trees, people get impatient and cut the big ones down. We do have a nuke-u-lar plant the next county over. We care for the parts of our history that don&#8217;t interfere with the seamless operation of automobiles.<br \/>\nWe are sensitive revisionists,  we ask &#8220;is the military statuary appropriate?&#8221;<br \/>\nWe remake the place. We remove the parts that offend. Then we apologize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our City is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. That is put into perspective when one sees a 30th generation Japanese rice farmer displaced from ancestral fields by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear melt. We don&#8217;t have that sort of multi-generational continuity here. We don&#8217;t have any 250 year old trees, people get impatient and cut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/reenactors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;reenactors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,29,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-culture","category-dolls","category-fishbones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}