{"id":253,"date":"2019-07-14T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:49:25","slug":"sites-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/2019\/07\/14\/sites-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sites of memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/files\/2019\/07\/plaque.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"406\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;In memory of the victims of the bombing of Sant Felip Neri. 42 people died here, mostly children, for the actions of Franco&#8217;s aviation on January 30, 1938.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sites of memory (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>lieux de m\u00e9moire<\/em>) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refer to any place, object, or concept vested with historical significance in the popular collective memory. What historian\u00a0Pierre Nora has termed <em>l<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ieux de m\u00e9moire<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be material or nonmaterial in nature, such as a monument, museum, event, or symbol. Sites of memory are important because they create a bond to the past within the present reality, bringing the past, and emotions associated with the past, to the forefront of consciousness. The definition and significance of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">memory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is in contrast to that of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">history<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. While memory is rooted in the present by the people, places, and things who maintain it, history is the reconstruction, always problematic and incomplete, of what is no longer; a mere representation of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/2019\/07\/14\/sites-of-memory\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sites of memory<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101531],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legacy-of-the-war","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}