{"id":8273,"date":"2019-03-04T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:21:36","slug":"why-study-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8273","title":{"rendered":"WHY STUDY THE PAST?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Study the Past?: The Quest for the Historical Church\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B01AV0CR4K\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have read a number of books that seek to motivate the reader to study history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though I had high expectations for this one by Williams, I was disappointed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My disappointment was due to the rather meandering reflections, the less than clear writing style, and illustrating things with arcane examples from the history of the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems Rowan Williams so desperately wants to give credence to every possible position that it is difficult to see where his own convictions lie.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read a number of books that seek to motivate the reader to study history. Though I had high expectations for this one by Williams, I was disappointed. My disappointment was due to the rather meandering reflections, the less than clear writing style, and illustrating things with arcane examples from the history of the [&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":[12,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-historiography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","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=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8274,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}