{"id":49,"date":"2013-03-26T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2023-08-19T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T19:47:02","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Pastcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;History never repeats itself, but the kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mark Twain, <em>The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pastcasts is about the creative interpretation of local history. We believe that it begins with a good story, not a litany of facts and figures. History is so rich in human pathos and wonder that we don&#8217;t need to rely on dog-and-pony shows or gimmicks at historic sites. As James Baldwin wrote, &#8220;American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.&#8221; This is great, important work that we do. It is our responsibility to tell those stories fairly, accurately, and creatively.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to visit our Pastcasts channel on <a title=\"Pastcasts on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/EdinboroughPress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;History never repeats itself, but the kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.&#8221; Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day Pastcasts is about the creative interpretation of local history. We believe that it begins with a good story, not a litany&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/front-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3kcV8-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}