{"id":12372,"date":"2007-12-25T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T13:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2014-01-09T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:57:23","slug":"christmas-wishes-from-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/25\/christmas-wishes-from-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas wishes from 1896"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1896, the editors of <i>Scribner&#8217;s Magazine Illustrated<\/i> had great hopes for the future. In the December issue of that year, now 111 years ago, they seemed sure that war was a thing of their past, that &#8220;it begins to seem possible that a great police force may keep the peace of Europe, and promote, if not actually compel, the peace of all the world.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scribnersChristmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scribnersChristmas-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"scribnersChristmas\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scribnersChristmas-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/scribnersChristmas.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The editors felt that &#8220;peace on earth, good-will toward men&#8221; was in their future, not knowing that World War I, World War II, and all the other wars between and since were still to come.  As a result, I&#8217;m afraid that I can&#8217;t be quite so sanguine about our own future. But I&#8217;ll do my best  to imagine, if only for today, a world in which such hope was possible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll at least try.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to you, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1896, the editors of Scribner&#8217;s Magazine Illustrated had great hopes for the future. In the December issue of that year, now 111 years ago, they seemed sure that war was a thing of their past, that &#8220;it begins to seem possible that a great police force may keep the peace of Europe, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12375,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions\/12375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}