{"id":1343,"date":"2015-05-24T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/fun-history.html"},"modified":"2015-05-24T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T08:58:00","slug":"fun-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/fun-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun history"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The fun thing about history is that we really know little about it. \u00a0Compared to what has happened to every person in every moment of every life, we have about two pieces of a ten million piece puzzle. \u00a0So here is an interesting article sent along by one of my readers. \u00a0Who really is responsible for European imperialism and colonization? \u00a0Ah, we wonder don\u2019t we? \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2015\/04\/two_underrated_peoples.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the article here<\/a>. \u00a0Of course like all things that try to say \u2018we didn\u2019t know but now we do\u2019, I take it with a few grains of salt. \u00a0But it is interesting and food for thought. \u00a0Maybe there\u2019s a little Celtic Basque in all of us!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fun thing about history is that we really know little about it. \u00a0Compared to what has happened to every person in every moment of every life, we have about two pieces of a ten million piece puzzle. \u00a0So here is an interesting article sent along by one of my readers. \u00a0Who really is responsible 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