{"id":85,"date":"2007-11-07T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/?p=85"},"modified":"2007-11-07T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T15:36:02","slug":"how-wars-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/2007\/11\/07\/how-wars-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"How wars get started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When in 1975 I became a student at Cambridge University my parents visited me there. It was actually their first stay in England. My mother was enchanted with the country. I wanted to know why and she explained that houses were \u201cnormal\u201d, people behaved \u201cnormally\u201d, everything in England was so essentially \u201cnormal\u201d. I pressed her gently about the source of such \u201cnormalcy\u201d: \u201cWell\u201d, she said, \u201chouses look like Dutch houses; people respond to you like they would in Holland; you know\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adriana\u2019s father is Romanian and he shares with my mother the same sound sense of normalcy based on the national spirit: in his mind being Romanian is not only the ideal but also plainly the \u201cnormal\u201d way to be. My mother passed away five years ago, I could still envision a passionate debate between her and Adriana\u2019s father about the very nature of \u201cnormalcy\u201d and I immediately got a sense of how wars get started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in 1975 I became a student at Cambridge University my parents visited me there. It was actually their first stay in England. My mother was enchanted with the country. I wanted to know why and she explained that houses were \u201cnormal\u201d, people behaved \u201cnormally\u201d, everything in England was so essentially \u201cnormal\u201d. I pressed her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}