{"id":1017,"date":"2024-08-25T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2024-08-25T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T13:49:10","slug":"me-and-mark-twain-are-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/me-and-mark-twain-are-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and Mark Twain are like that!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem43.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem43.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem43-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem43-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our planet seems to be becoming smaller by the year,<br>as technology and communications develop, and yet \u2026<br>When I encounter popular media<br>with our mediaeval debates about local religions or news<br>with our primitive tribal politics,<br>I keep thinking:<br>&#8220;Things are getting better\u2026<br>most people are still poorly educated\u2026<br>it is just a matter of time\u2026&#8221;<br>and then I read Mark Twain<br>and realise that this is how he consoled himself<br>more than a hundred years ago\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our planet seems to be becoming smaller by the year,as technology and communications develop, and yet \u2026When I encounter popular mediawith our mediaeval debates about local religions or newswith our primitive tribal politics,I keep thinking:&#8220;Things are getting better\u2026most people are still poorly educated\u2026it is just a matter of time\u2026&#8221;and then I read Mark Twainand realise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,125,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}