{"id":29032,"date":"2020-08-10T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T08:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29032"},"modified":"2020-08-10T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T08:28:12","slug":"history-has-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29032","title":{"rendered":"History Has Stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/History_Has_Stopped.jpg\" alt=\"History Has Stopped\" class=\"wp-image-29033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/History_Has_Stopped.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/History_Has_Stopped-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tom: If one learns from the mistakes of the past\u2026 \u2026but the past is erased\u2026 \u2026then the only source from which to learn becomes the data we read or see\u2026 \u2026 and if the present is censored and all information conforms to the official agenda\u2026 \u2026we become slaves to the system producing the approved content\u2026 \u2026and if the official content is inaccurate to forward an agenda or hide mistakes or protect vested interests\u2026 \u2026we start living a lie. Only the truth will set you free. Any species living a lie reduces its ability to survive.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.\u201d ~ George Orwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about what Orwell had to say about &#8216;Truth&#8217; here: bit.ly\/3g9WUFq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tom: If one learns from the mistakes of the past\u2026 \u2026but the past is erased\u2026 \u2026then the only source from which to learn becomes the data we read or see\u2026 \u2026 and if the present is censored and all information conforms to the official agenda\u2026 \u2026we become slaves to the system producing the approved content\u2026 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History Has Stopped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29034,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions\/29034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}