{"id":32828,"date":"2023-06-22T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/on-humanitys-preoccupation-of-erasing-its-own-history#id32859"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:26:00","slug":"on-humanitys-longstanding-preoccupation-of-erasing-its-own-history-and-how-in-the-digital-era-that-intent-remains-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/on-humanitys-longstanding-preoccupation-of-erasing-its-own-history-and-how-in-the-digital-era-that-intent-remains-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"On humanity\u2019s longstanding preoccupation of erasing its own history, and how, in the digital era, that intent remains strong."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Socrates warned in Plato&rsquo;s &ldquo;Phaedrus&rdquo; that the invention of writing destroyed memory&#8230; More recently, the typewriter enabled the production of far more paperwork, raising profound anxieties about the number of lost, displaced, and missing documents.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/21\/opinion\/digital-archives-memory.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/on-humanitys-preoccupation-of-erasing-its-own-history\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Socrates warned in Plato&rsquo;s &ldquo;Phaedrus&rdquo; that the invention of writing destroyed memory&#8230; More recently, the typewriter enabled the production of far more paperwork, raising profound anxieties about the nu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32829,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828\/revisions\/32829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}