{"id":1564,"date":"2019-09-01T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2019-09-01T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:56:58","slug":"eighty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Eighty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here it is September already\u2026. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland \u2014 thus the beginning of World War II. During the years of that war, the world learned a lot. Most everyone agreed that the world should take steps to prevent history from repeating itself, and that World War II should truly be the war to end all wars.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, we\u2019ve done pretty well\u2026 we certainly haven\u2019t ended all wars, but there have been multiple times that World War III <em>has<\/em> been prevented. Reading the news lately, a few people draw comparisons to situations and actions that are remarkably similar to those that existed in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>One concern that I have is that most of the people that lived and experienced the events of the late 1930s and early 1940s are now gone, and the \u201cnewer\u201d generations appear to possibly be headed down the same road again.<\/p>\n<p>I still have faith that cooler heads will prevail and we won\u2019t repeat the mistakes we made in the past again. Maybe there should be a \u201cWorld Office\u201d whose responsibilities are to document \u2014 like a cookbook with directions \u2014 of all major events, and what was done right and what was done wrong. That book should be mandatory reading for all world leaders every year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, for today, let\u2019s all remember September 1, 1939 and keep our fingers crossed that it never happens again.<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here it is September already\u2026. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland \u2014 thus the beginning of World War II. During the years of that war, the world learned a lot. Most everyone agreed that the world should take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1564\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}