{"id":8069,"date":"2016-11-10T20:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8069"},"modified":"2016-11-10T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:05:18","slug":"cycles-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8069","title":{"rendered":"Cycles of history"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been worried now for many years that the world will end this period of peace and prosperity with another bang, like the one that happened in 1914.<\/p>\n

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I am not alone with my concerns. I just read an excellent article<\/a>, written back in July, that argues the same. Indeed, like me, the author considers it an inevitable cycle of history.<\/p>\n

As I said in the wake of Trump’s victory, I am in my 50s and I have no children, so I have much less at stake than most. I can afford to be a spectator. Still, I desperately hope that when the world goes bonkers, Canada manages to stay out of it. Is it even possible, in this globalized era? Isn’t Canada just too great a prize, with its abundant land and natural resources? I hope never to find out. But on this day, the eve of the 98th anniversary of the Armistice at the conclusion of The War to End All Wars, I think it is the right question to ask.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been worried now for many years that the world will end this period of peace and prosperity with another bang, like the one that happened in 1914. I am not alone with my concerns. I just read an excellent article, written back in July, that argues the same. Indeed, like me, the author […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-history","category-politics","category-22-id","category-25-id","category-5-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\/8069","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=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}