{"id":768,"date":"2008-01-09T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/we-can-all-make-history-come-alive\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T11:27:16","slug":"we-can-all-make-history-come-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/we-can-all-make-history-come-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"We can all make history come alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_v1l24hLE2pQ\/Rxr5Ke2N6OI\/AAAAAAAAAGo\/PrazC2SgSRE\/s400\/harry+fixed+head.jpg?w=100\" alt=\"Harry Lamin\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statusq.org\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/1731\/\">Courtesty of Status-Q<\/a>, I&#8217;ve just run across this amazing and wonderful little project:  <a href=\"http:\/\/wwar1.blogspot.com\/\">WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Lamin is posting the letters his grandfather (Harry Lamin) wrote home from the front of WWI as a blog.  Each letter is posted 90 years after (to the day) Harry wrote it, so following the blog is somewhat like being his family, waiting for news, hoping it&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>What a brilliantly simple idea, absolutely full of potential and possibility.  Our family is fortunate enough to have a number of excellent diaries, letter collections, and such, and I&#8217;ve often thought of &#8220;doing something&#8221; with them.  My thoughts had always been fairly traditional; this opens all sorts of doors.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/blog\/\" title=\"blog\">blog<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/blogging\/\" title=\"blogging\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/family\/\" title=\"Family\">Family<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/history\/\" title=\"history\">history<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/writing\/\" title=\"Writing\">Writing<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/10\/making-an-unexpected-difference\/\" title=\"Making an unexpected difference (10 Jan 07)\">Making an unexpected difference<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/07\/04\/wordle-makes-tag-clouds-all-pretty\/\" title=\"Wordle makes tag clouds all pretty (4 Jul 08)\">Wordle makes tag clouds all pretty<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesty of Status-Q, I&#8217;ve just run across this amazing and wonderful little project: WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier. Bill Lamin is posting the letters his grandfather (Harry Lamin) wrote home from the front of WWI as a blog. Each letter is posted 90 years after (to the day) Harry wrote it, so following the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/we-can-all-make-history-come-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We can all make history come alive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17,25,5,7],"tags":[33,91,873,879,861],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-co","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/08\/my-letter-didnt-appear-in-the-strib-but-some-better-ones-did\/","url_meta":{"origin":768,"position":0},"title":"My letter didn&#8217;t appear in the Strib, but (some) better ones did","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 May 05","format":false,"excerpt":"The Minneapolis Star-Tribune printed 11 letters today sent in response to their \"invitation to readers on ID\/evolution\". 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More later, including iPods in vending machines and embarrassing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/05\/first-in-the-barimaeus-trilogy-was-pretty-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":768,"position":2},"title":"First in the Bartimaeus Trilogy was pretty good","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 Jun 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I went on yesterday about Not the end of the world, I thought I should mention briefly that the book that Sub-Evil Boy and I just finished (thereby opening up the option of reading Not the end of the world) was pretty good. 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