{"id":3080,"date":"2018-04-14T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2018-04-17T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:12:56","slug":"those-who-do-not-know-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"Those who do not know history &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who do not know history compound errors by using phrases with loaded meanings or abysmal histories. As the World Meteorological Organization&#8217;s Hurricane Committee retires names so no one has\u00a0<em>another<\/em> Katrina approaching them, I assumed politicians would retire phrases which haunt their predecessors. Then there&#8217;s this guy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3081\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MissionAccomplished.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MissionAccomplished.png 649w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MissionAccomplished-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a narrowly defined &#8216;mission&#8217;, sure it&#8217;s true. But GW stood in front of someone else&#8217;s sign and &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;\u00a0<em>still<\/em> hasn&#8217;t escaped the new connotative meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who do not know history compound errors by using phrases with loaded meanings or abysmal histories. As the World Meteorological Organization&#8217;s Hurricane Committee retires names so no one has\u00a0another Katrina approaching them, I assumed politicians would retire phrases which haunt their predecessors. Then there&#8217;s this guy: With a narrowly defined &#8216;mission&#8217;, sure it&#8217;s true. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[274,211],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","tag-irony","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}