Yesterday I bought an old book for a friend. I mean a really<\/i> old book, one filled with fashionable descriptions of up-to-the-minute comings and goings of people now long gone from this world.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether, when that book was being put together, any of the individuals involved in its creation stopped for a moment to wonder whether it would be read by people far off in the future.<\/p>\n
If so, would those denizens of a now vanished world have been able to put themselves into our shoes, reading about their own time as some exotic and long lost place?<\/p>\n
Could we ever imagine our own time in such a way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I bought an old book for a friend. I mean a really old book, one filled with fashionable descriptions of up-to-the-minute comings and goings of people now long gone from this world. I wonder whether, when that book was being put together, any of the individuals involved in its creation stopped for a moment … Continue reading “Old book”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11606,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11602\/revisions\/11606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}