{"id":1124,"date":"2021-06-20T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2021-06-20T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:03:31","slug":"posts-i-never-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/posts-i-never-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Posts I never made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a useful function called &#8216;Google Alerts&#8217; whereby Google will email you any new results for a given search.<\/p>\n<p>I used this to set up a number of searches relating to &#8216;no new wars&#8217; and the centenary of the Great War.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21\/12\/2014 to 17\/06\/2021, &#8220;11-11-2018&#8221;, 1,117 results.\u00a0 Returned anything that looked like a date of 11th November and 2018.<\/li>\n<li>21\/12\/2014 to 17\/06\/2021, &#8220;11\/11\/2018&#8221;, 1,113 results.\u00a0 Returned anything that looked like a date of 11th November and 2018.<\/li>\n<li>09\/06\/2013 to 20\/06\/2021, &#8220;&#8221;Great War&#8221; 100 years&#8221;, 1,890 results.\u00a0 Was just about memorials being done up.<\/li>\n<li>31\/05\/2013 to 20\/06\/2021, &#8220;&#8221;Great War&#8221; centenary&#8221;, 1,371 results.\u00a0 All sorts of results, very few potentially interesting.<\/li>\n<li>17\/06\/2013 to 17\/06\/2021 (just by chance), &#8220;&#8221;war to end all wars&#8221; 100 years&#8221;, 1,042 results.\u00a0 All sorts of results, very few potentially interesting.\u00a0 Mostly about memorials.<\/li>\n<li>09\/06\/2013 to 29\/05\/2021, &#8220;&#8221;war to end all wars&#8221; centenary&#8221;, 348 results.\u00a0 Some of these are very interesting, discussing the rights and wrongs and truths of war.\u00a0 For about half of those, the article is no longer online.<\/li>\n<li>17\/06\/2013 to 13\/06\/2021, &#8220;&#8221;No New Wars&#8221;&#8221;, 186 results.<\/li>\n<li>17\/06\/2013 to 21\/01\/2021, &#8220;NoNewWars&#8221;, 18 results.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8221;NoNewWars&#8221;&#8221;, 0 results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had been full of good intentions to read and consider each of those results.\u00a0 Many of them contain multiple results themselves, up to about 6.\u00a0 So there&#8217;s about 10,000 to 15,000 actual links there.\u00a0 I was being waaaaay too optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>I did glance at those messages, frequently.\u00a0 Almost all were about heroes, celebrating sacrifice, celebrating the <em>start<\/em> of the war, how we need to remember what a great thing it was.\u00a0 So much pro-war, pro-death, pro-suffering in the media.\u00a0 It is very depressing.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, no posts resulted.<\/p>\n<p>But an awful lot of people saw pro-war messages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a useful function called &#8216;Google Alerts&#8217; whereby Google will email you any new results for a given search. I used this to set up a number of searches relating to &#8216;no new wars&#8217; and the centenary of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/posts-i-never-made\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,10,26,4,161,71,235],"tags":[156,109,123,106,162,75,237],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indoctrination","category-media","category-media-reaction","category-no-new-wars","category-sad","category-the-media","category-why-wars-happen","tag-indoctrination","tag-media","tag-media-reaction","tag-no-new-wars","tag-sad","tag-the-media","tag-why-wars-happen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}