{"id":137057,"date":"2018-09-07T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=137057"},"modified":"2018-09-07T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:42:24","slug":"a-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/a-history-lesson.html","title":{"rendered":"A History Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If there are two things that I\u2019ve learned at the Bristish Museum it\u2019s; <\/p>\n<p>1. The Brits stole a fuck ton of shit.<\/p>\n<p>2. Every culture, since the beginning of time, appreciates a nice vase.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakkiahlui\/status\/1037296663231180801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RT @nakkiahlui: If there are two things that I\u2019ve learned at the Bristish Museum it\u2019s;<\/p>\n<p>1. The Brits stole a fuck ton of shit.<\/p>\n<p>2. Every c\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there are two things that I\u2019ve learned at the Bristish Museum it\u2019s; 1. The Brits stole a fuck ton of shit. 2. Every culture, since the beginning of time, appreciates a nice vase. &mdash; Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) September 5, 2018 RT @nakkiahlui: If there are two things that I\u2019ve learned at the Bristish Museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/a-history-lesson.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A History Lesson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,66,10,108],"tags":[1715,1714,723],"class_list":["post-137057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-media-art","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-history","tag-elgin","tag-imperialism","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/dont-know-much-about-history.html","url_meta":{"origin":137057,"position":0},"title":"Don&#39;t know much about history","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Mar-12 2:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As a history major, I'm sad to see the History Channel showing actual, y'know, history ... is history. #ddtbReshared post from +Les JenkinsTHIS! 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