{"id":4027,"date":"2010-08-11T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:30:26","slug":"walking-down-corridors-of-the-past-paying-tribute-by-remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/walking-down-corridors-of-the-past-paying-tribute-by-remembering\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Down Corridors Of The Past Paying Tribute By Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>T<\/b>oday is largely offline.  We set it aside to pay tribute to those no longer with us whose lives resonate so profoundly still.   To see one&#8217;s memories of extraordinary people in all their richness memorialized with skilled,  appreciative care of archivists and specialists proves to be at once re-assuring and dislocating.  We expected an emotional reaction; its depth and intensity nonetheless surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Apropos of nothing in particular we also came across this today in another context. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/They-Say-Its-Your-Birthday-Gonna-Have-A-Good-Time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/They-Say-Its-Your-Birthday-Gonna-Have-A-Good-Time-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Just More Detritus From The Wreckage Of The American Century\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4028\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/They-Say-Its-Your-Birthday-Gonna-Have-A-Good-Time-300x127.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/They-Say-Its-Your-Birthday-Gonna-Have-A-Good-Time.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>  Already being in a reflective mindset,  many thoughts rushed by unbidden.  Some recalling the era, others the panoply of history, and others the sad context of that anniversary and the wreckage.  <\/p>\n<p>Still couldn&#8217;t repress a smile imagining Percy Alleline as emcee.     And then we heard Smiley say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Guillam: Why was Control always so hostile to Alleline? Percy wasn&#8217;t a complete fool.<br \/>\nGeorge Smiley: Percy can flirt, Peter. And Control hadn&#8217;t reckoned on the power of the Alleline lobby.<br \/>\nPeter Guillam: Who were they?<br \/>\nGeorge Smiley: Golfers. &#8220;Golfers and Conservatives.&#8221; That&#8217;s what Control said to me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is largely offline. We set it aside to pay tribute to those no longer with us whose lives resonate so profoundly still. To see one&#8217;s memories of extraordinary people in all their richness memorialized with skilled, appreciative care of archivists and specialists proves to be at once re-assuring and dislocating. We expected an emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}