{"id":57478,"date":"2017-02-19T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_mccullough_loves_charleston_south_carolina_libraries_and_history\/"},"modified":"2017-02-19T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T02:00:10","slug":"david_mccullough_loves_charleston_south_carolina_libraries_and_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57478","title":{"rendered":"David McCullough loves Charleston, South Carolina, libraries and history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am a very strong believer, and it\u2019s become sort of a continuing preachment with me, that it\u2019s a great mistake to teach history, or picture history, as only about politics and war,\u201d\u009d McCullough said. \u201cHistory is human. It\u2019s about everything. It\u2019s about education. It\u2019s about medicine. It\u2019s about science. It\u2019s about art and music and literature, and the theater. And to leave (all that) out is not only to leave out a lot of the juice and the fun and the uplifting powers of human expression, but it is to misunderstand what it is. In many cases, the only real evidence we have of some vanished civilization is in their art, in their sculpture, their architecture, whether you\u2019re talking about the cave paintings or whatever it might be.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/features\/david-mccullough-loves-charleston-libraries-and-history\/article_820001b8-f464-11e6-ba84-8f899a667171.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David McCullough loves Charleston, libraries and history <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Se49N0fbdR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Se49N0fbdR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chsnews?src=hash\">#chsnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NIcNJbl3az\">pic.twitter.com\/NIcNJbl3az<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/833050961090330624\">February 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am a very strong believer, and it\u2019s become sort of a continuing preachment with me, that it\u2019s a great mistake to teach history, or picture history, as only about politics and war,\u201d\u009d McCullough said. \u201cHistory is human. It\u2019s about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57478\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,54,209,92,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}