{"id":4492,"date":"2011-10-20T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2011-10-20T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:51:14","slug":"are-we-living-in-1848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/are-we-living-in-1848\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we living in 1848?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22325431@N05\/4039454813\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2570\/4039454813_2385a3ebe3_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22325431@N05\/4039454813\/\">Angel sculpture, Martyrs&#8217; Square 1<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22325431@N05\/\">historic.brussels<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018Writing of the European revolutions of 1848, for instance, one historian recently noted: \u201cAt the beginning of 1848 no one believed that revolution was imminent.\u201d\u2019  This is from an article in The Independent today, arguing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/andreas-whittam-smith\/andreas-whittam-smith-western-nations-are-now-ripe-for-revolution-2372930.html\">Western nations are now ripe for revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s rather speculative, but as demonstrations inspired by the Arab Spring spread around the world, the idea is not so fanciful as to allow us to ignore the possibility that something dramatic could be happening soon.<\/p>\n<p>We might soon find that we live in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel sculpture, Martyrs&#8217; Square 1 Originally uploaded by historic.brussels \u2018Writing of the European revolutions of 1848, for instance, one historian recently noted: \u201cAt the beginning of 1848 no one believed that revolution was imminent.\u201d\u2019 This is from an article in The Independent today, arguing that Western nations are now ripe for revolution. I think it&#8217;s rather speculative, but as demonstrations inspired by the Arab Spring spread around the world, the idea is not so fanciful as to allow us to ignore the possibility that something dramatic could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,112,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}