{"id":9063,"date":"2016-10-01T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9063"},"modified":"2016-10-02T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:31:50","slug":"the-historical-context-of-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9063","title":{"rendered":"October reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/H-hitler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/H-hitler.jpg\" alt=\"h-hitler\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/H-hitler.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/H-hitler-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/H-hitler-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid that this book may make some pretty scary reading in the weeks before this election. But many other Americans will be reading this book right now, and we might as well band together for mutual support and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph, by the way, was taken in the rubble of a textile mill in Madison-Mayodan, North Carolina, shortly after I picked up the book at the post office.<\/p>\n<p>From the introduction:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We Germans were liberated from Hitler, but we&#8217;ll never shake him off,&#8221; Eberhard J\u00e4ckel concluded in a lecture in 1979, adding: &#8220;Hitler will always be with us, with those who survived, those who came afterwards and even those yet to be born. He is present &#8212; not as a living figure, but as an eternal cautionary monument to what human beings are capable of.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid that this book may make some pretty scary reading in the weeks before this election. But many other Americans will be reading this book right now, and we might as well band together for mutual support and discussion. The photograph, by the way, was taken in the rubble of a textile mill in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}