{"id":32467,"date":"2013-02-08T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/this-is-why-historically-we-cant-have-nice-things.html"},"modified":"2013-02-08T06:05:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:05:49","slug":"this-is-why-historically-we-cant-have-nice-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/this-is-why-historically-we-cant-have-nice-things.html","title":{"rendered":"This is why, historically, we can&#39;t have nice things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#39;s easier to mar and destroy than it is to preserve, and because human ego desires to leave a mark, no matter the cost to others. \u00a0Not quite as awful an example as the Timbuktu destruction (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/02\/08\/3223426\/timbuktu-mausoleums-rebuilding.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/02\/08\/3223426\/timbuktu-mausoleums-rebuilding.html<\/a>), but of a kind to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108266452471018020474'>Victoria Hudgins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This makes me so angry. People can be so disrespectful and stupid. I hope she gets a huge fine!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/imgart\/web-gh-delacroix02.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/articles\/Painting+by+D%C3%A8lacroix+defaced+in+Louvre-Lens\/28609'>Painting by D\u00e8lacroix defaced in Louvre-Lens &#8211; The Art Newspaper<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpecialists from the Louvre&#8217;s paintings department were due to assess the work last night. \u201cOn first view, the markings appear to be superficial and may be easily removed,\u201d said a museum statement. Af&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/DKxt4CTqSr7' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#39;s easier to mar and destroy than it is to preserve, and because human ego desires to leave a mark, no matter the cost to others. \u00a0Not quite as awful an example as the Timbuktu destruction (http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/02\/08\/3223426\/timbuktu-mausoleums-rebuilding.html), but of a kind to it. Reshared post from +Victoria Hudgins This makes me so angry. People &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/this-is-why-historically-we-cant-have-nice-things.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is why, historically, we can&#39;t have nice things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}