{"id":294,"date":"2008-02-19T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=294"},"modified":"2008-02-19T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:56:47","slug":"more-alt-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/294","title":{"rendered":"More alt history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/archives\/history_\/2008\/02\/bizarro_world.php\">The Reality-Based Community<\/a>, a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.com\/archive\/2008\/january-february-magazine-contents\/graft-paper\">this overview<\/a> of the work of Onken and Jones. It ties in to a question I&#8217;ve always had about the way events work &#8211; are there really pivot points, or are there broad trends that force thing in certain directions and we retrofit the specific causes (or &#8211; as things seem usually to be &#8211; a bit of both)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The researchers also found that assassinations have no effect on the inauguration of wars, a result that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suggests that World War I might have begun regardless of whether or not the attempt on the life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 had succeeded or failed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, my friend Ray seems to have been involved with early efforts towards a transatlantic cable, discussing same with a favorite steam-vicky &#8211; Isambard Kingdom Brunel.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.achewood.com\/index.php?date=02192008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/pub\/pix\/rayandisambard.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Reality-Based Community, a link to this overview of the work of Onken and Jones. It ties in to a question I&#8217;ve always had about the way events work &#8211; are there really pivot points, or are there broad &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff","category-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-4K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}