{"id":23,"date":"2007-08-04T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/08\/04\/civilizations-have-libraries\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T20:09:05","slug":"civilizations-have-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/08\/04\/civilizations-have-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilizations have Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are people, and I love them <em>all<\/em>.\u00a0 But today and historically, some collections of people have been described as &#8220;civilizations,&#8221; and some time ago (okay, okay, while hiking through beautiful scenery from friendly but rough village to friendly but rough town, craving a hot, clean shower and a net connection) I began to ponder what this word meant.<\/p>\n<p>I concluded that, for me, the defining features of a civilization are <em>persistent traditions and bodies of knowledge<\/em>, of exactly the sort that are maintained, preserved, and shared in recognizable libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are people, and I love them all.\u00a0 But today and historically, some collections of people have been described as &#8220;civilizations,&#8221; and some time ago (okay, okay, while hiking through beautiful scenery from friendly but rough village to friendly but rough town, craving a hot, clean shower and a net connection) I began to ponder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,434,990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-rhetoric","category-vision"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}