{"id":1886,"date":"2012-12-05T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:48:01","slug":"analects-of-the-core-170-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/12\/05\/analects-of-the-core-170-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Diamond on the Greenland Norse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a book that sometimes plays a part in CC106, Jared Diamond&#8217;s <em>Collapse<\/em>:\u00a0<em>How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, <\/em>here is today&#8217;s analect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe&#8217;s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a book that sometimes plays a part in CC106, Jared Diamond&#8217;s Collapse:\u00a0How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, here is today&#8217;s analect: The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe&#8217;s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,2534,4151,1],"tags":[3890,37413,6057,37409,37412,7849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}