{"id":7209,"date":"2017-08-07T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:19:58","slug":"7209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7209","title":{"rendered":"ARE YOU WILLING TO LEARN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From historian, Eric Foner:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My own saying, I don\u2019t know if I invented this\u2014perhaps I did\u2014which I tell students is that \u201cnothing is easier than finding what you are looking for.\u201d In other words, that\u2019s my plea to be open-minded. When you go to an archive, you have certain presuppositions but it\u2019s very easy to find what you\u2019re looking for and to ignore those things which don\u2019t fit your assumptions, and you can\u2019t do that. You have to, as they say, be open-minded enough to be willing to change your mind when you encounter countervailing evidence. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Moore&#8217;s Reflection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many, and yes I said many Christians, are rather poor at this kind of godly, but nimble type of thinking.\u00a0 We pretty much mimic the culture at large.\u00a0 Most of us Americans hunker down in our own cultural, social, and intellectual silos.\u00a0 We regularly choose ignorance, group pressure, and fear to determine our cherished beliefs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HT: John Fea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest is here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/166481\">http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/166481<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From historian, Eric Foner: My own saying, I don\u2019t know if I invented this\u2014perhaps I did\u2014which I tell students is that \u201cnothing is easier than finding what you are looking for.\u201d In other words, that\u2019s my plea to be open-minded. When you go to an archive, you have certain presuppositions but it\u2019s very easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,37,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historiography","category-learningeducation","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}