{"id":18570,"date":"2023-04-17T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18570"},"modified":"2023-04-17T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:23:55","slug":"tautological-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2023\/04\/17\/tautological-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tautological history"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I happened across, and was amused by, this line the other day:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>History would never have happened were it not for events in the past.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\u2014WaPo commenter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2023\/04\/15\/benjamin-franklin-hutchinson-letters-tea-party\/?commentID=b86bae41-551b-46f3-a88a-e96249e0e4e1\">Ken99M<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Reminded me of Anna Russell\u2019s line \u201cThings would be so different if they were not as they are,\u201d from <cite>How to Write Your Own Gilbert & Sullivan Opera<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tautologies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18571,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions\/18571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}