{"id":751,"date":"2019-09-18T00:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T04:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=751"},"modified":"2019-09-18T00:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T04:55:57","slug":"them-crazy-victorians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/18\/them-crazy-victorians\/","title":{"rendered":"Them Crazy Victorians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The podcast was quite interesting in the approach it took to the entire Herstory section of thought and how it directly contradicts the idea of The Great man theory by Thomas Carlyle. It intrigued me how they pointed out how much of what we view as history is thanks to \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crazy Victorians and their ideas about how the world works.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d it was eye opening that one group of individuals, from 200ish years ago, could have so much impact on how social standards are followed, and viewed today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was also nice how they ladies mentioned the people&#8217;s history movement. I strongly believe that telling history\/herstory form all angles is so very important as it shows us what everyone is and was thinking about a topic at a certain time, not just those with lots of money and prowess. The part where the Smithsonian writer talked about how she would write stories on the true unsung heroes of science, not just the well known ones like Marie Curie, really shows the importance of people&#8217;s history as great people tend not to get recorded unless they break all the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a side note I loved how they just kept trashing the people who acted like they knew something about women in history just due to the fact they knew about Marie Curie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast was quite interesting in the approach it took to the entire Herstory section of thought and how it directly contradicts the idea of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/18\/them-crazy-victorians\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Them Crazy Victorians<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}