{"id":1117,"date":"2015-04-25T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2015-04-25T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T13:41:38","slug":"the-destruction-of-cultural-treasures-during-war-is-tragically-the-legacy-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/the-destruction-of-cultural-treasures-during-war-is-tragically-the-legacy-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The destruction of cultural treasures during war is, tragically, the legacy of humanity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/India-Buddhist-cave.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/India-Buddhist-cave-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"India Buddhist cave\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/India-Buddhist-cave-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/India-Buddhist-cave.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Destroying what your enemy holds dear is the legacy of humanity. \u00a0Think of the destruction of Solomon&#8217;s Temple, the ancient manuscripts in the libraries of Timbuktu, the destruction of Iroquoian wampum belts, Taliban&#8217;s blowing up of the magnificent Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001. \u00a0And, of course, ISIS&#8217; destruction of archaeological sites in Iraq and Syria. \u00a0 The reasons for destroying your enemy&#8217;s cherished cultural sites and artifacts are varied, but for the most part such acts center around tearing out the heart of the people. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/why-we-have-civic-responsibility-protect-cultural-treasures-during-wartime-180954887\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/why-we-have-civic-responsibility-protect-cultural-treasures-during-wartime-180954887\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destroying what your enemy holds dear is the legacy of humanity. \u00a0Think of the destruction of Solomon&#8217;s Temple, the ancient manuscripts in the libraries of Timbuktu, the destruction of Iroquoian wampum belts, Taliban&#8217;s blowing up of the magnificent Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001. \u00a0And, of course, ISIS&#8217; destruction of archaeological sites in Iraq and Syria. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,66,218,94,96,123,217],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/India-Buddhist-cave.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}