{"id":155,"date":"2013-04-30T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2013-04-30T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:03:19","slug":"blogging-the-past-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Blogging the Past in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpIBwXsrsMQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One piece missing from most history museum installations is the sense of time. That might seem like a strange statement, but a good gallery tour might take one hour, during which events that took days, weeks, and years are compressed so that you can get the whole story in one visit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a couple blogs that are telling their stories in real time. One, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/topics\/b\/blogging_the_beatles.html\" title=\"Blogging the Beatles\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging the Beatles<\/a>, has been following the world&#8217;s great rock band from its start. The posts roughly match the real events of fifty years ago, so, although we know the rest of the story, there is a certain anticipation as they have their first recording sessions with George Martin, or when they hit Number #1 on the charts with &#8220;Please, Please Me.&#8221; It helps me to understand how the Beatles exploded on the U.K. scene while remaining generally unknown in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>A second blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/boundforsouthaustralia.net.au\" title=\"Bound for South Australia\" target=\"_blank\">Bound for South Australia<\/a>, takes the same approach, except this time using captains&#8217; logs and diaries to follow, with once a week entries, the voyages of nine ships from Great Britain to Australia in 1838. At times, not much happens, and as a reader, I watch the horizon, looking for an island up ahead. At others, storms beset the ships and with accompanying maps, we can connect the story to a place. In these forty-five entries, the authors make available primary resources for further study. It&#8217;s a great teaching technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One piece missing from most history museum installations is the sense of time. That might seem like a strange statement, but a good gallery tour might take one hour, during which events that took days, weeks, and years are compressed so that you can get the whole story in one visit. I&#8217;ve found a couple&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=155\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,21,4],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-history-tools","tag-beatles","tag-bound-for-australia","tag-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kcV8-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}