{"id":45335,"date":"2014-06-27T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45335"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:32:45","slug":"it-was-100-years-ago-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45335","title":{"rendered":"It Was 100 Years Ago Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 100 years ago tomorrow that Gavril Princep, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s an event that your junior high history teacher told you started World War I.\u00a0 Your teacher was right, in the same sense that a buckling road &#8220;causes&#8221; a sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve been following my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=112\">World War II &#8211; Fact And Myth<\/a>&#8221; series marking the seventieth anniversaries of key events in World War 2, you may not be shocked to know that First Ringer and I &#8211; frustrated historians, both of us us &#8211; are going to be rolling out a similar series, &#8220;World War I &#8211; Fact and Myth&#8221;, touching on the same sorts of events in the First World War at their 100th anniversaries.\u00a0 The series will obviously overlap for the next 15 months or so &#8211; which makes perfect sense, since they really were two different phases of the same war.\u00a0 Indeed, much of what is going on in the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Europe today is directly tied to what happened in World War I.<\/p>\n<p>So that works.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it also means a fair amount of re-reading World War I history for both of us!<\/p>\n<p>As a palate-cleanser before the series starts?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/on_point\/2014062422315.aspx\">Austin Bay on the ways in which World War 1 is still going on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 100 years ago tomorrow that Gavril Princep, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s an event that your junior high history teacher told you started World War I.\u00a0 Your teacher was right, in the same sense that a buckling road &#8220;causes&#8221; a sinkhole. And if you&#8217;ve been following my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-ww1-fact-and-myth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45752,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45335\/revisions\/45752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}