{"id":897,"date":"2003-02-14T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T18:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/14\/897.html"},"modified":"2003-02-14T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T18:37:40","slug":"bad-sense-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/14\/bad-sense-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad sense of history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That's the problem with reading old stuff... I started reading Louisa May Alcott's <a href=\"http:\/\/etext.lib.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/AlcFlow.html\">Flower Fables<\/a>, and realized I didn't really have any sense of the time they were written in. Middle of the 19th century, yes. Civil War. Dickens. But what else? Googling for timelines, and picking out a few things\n\n<p>\nAlcott: Flower Fables written around 1848, published 1854 (Little Women 1868)\n<br>Hans Christian Anderson: first collection of tales published 1835, first published in English 1845\n<br>Dickens: First novel published 1836, Christmas Carol 1843\n<br>Stephen Foster: Old Folks at home, sheet music published 1851\n<br>C. Golightly granted the first patent in England, on a rocket-airplane, 1841\n<br>Mexican-American War 1846-1848\n<br>Adolph Sax invents the Saxophone, 1840\n<br>Nitroglycerine invented 1847\n<br>Sewing Machine invented 1846\n<br>Levi Straus invents blue jeans 1850\n<br>Burton: The Arabian Nights 1850\n<br>Foucault pendulum in Paris, 1851\n<br>Taiping rebellion, 1850s\n<br>Charge of the Light Brigade (event and poem) 1854\n<br>New York (daily) Times begins publication 1851\n\n<p>Hm. Some of that fits my idea of mid-19th century, a lot doesn't.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the problem with reading old stuff&#8230; I started reading Louisa May Alcott&#8217;s Flower Fables, and realized I didn&#8217;t really have any sense of the time they were written in. Middle of the 19th century, yes. Civil War. Dickens. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}