{"id":6073,"date":"2014-06-28T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2014-06-28T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:26:20","slug":"a-century-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6073","title":{"rendered":"A century of conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 100 years ago today, a south Slav nationalist teen, Gavrilo Princip, became a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/joshirby.com\/2014\/06\/23\/gavrilo-princip-weaponized-history-and-the-role-of-the-historian-interview-with-award-winning-author-tim-butcher-on-his-new-book-the-trigger\/\">weaponized history<\/a>\u00a0when he shot to death the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, prince Franz Ferdinand along with his wife, Sophie. The shots shattered the dream of the &#8220;Century of Reason&#8221;: Instead, the 20th century came to be remembered as a century of global upheaval, the two deadliest global wars in history, the birth and ultimately, death of the worst totalitarian empires the world ever saw and the rise of a new kind of empire, as a result of which many now call the 20th century the American Century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/europe\/bosnian-serbs-honor-assassin-who-triggered-wwi-n142561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6074\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/princip-statue-small.jpg\" alt=\"princip-statue-small\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/princip-statue-small.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/princip-statue-small-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today should be a day of remembrance. And in many ways it is&#8230; especially in Sarajevo, where they just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2672990\/Bosnian-Serbs-half-Sarajevo-erect-statue-hero-assassin-triggered-WWI-divided-city-marks-100th-anniversary.html\">erected a statue<\/a> of the young assassin who set out to change the world and arguably, became one of history&#8217;s most successful rebels ever as a result.<\/p>\n<p>And no, contrary to popular belief, Princip was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/gavrilo-princips-sandwich-79480741\/\">not eating a sandwich<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6073' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 100 years ago today, a south Slav nationalist teen, Gavrilo Princip, became a part of weaponized history\u00a0when he shot to death the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, prince Franz Ferdinand along with his wife, Sophie. The shots shattered the dream of the &#8220;Century of Reason&#8221;: Instead, the 20th century came to be remembered as <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6073' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-25-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}