{"id":252877,"date":"2022-11-17T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252877"},"modified":"2022-11-17T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:22:00","slug":"the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/11\/17\/the-more-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The more things change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.&#8221; &#8211; Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/FiLCDX5WIAYahF2.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252878\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note<\/strong>: Although I mostly posted this because I think it&#8217;s funny, I feel compelled to point out that there is no evidence a tablet like this ever existed or says what it claims to say, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/10\/22\/world-end\/\">the folks at Quote Investigator<\/a>: &#8220;This popular tale of a tablet listing eerily familiar societal criticisms has been in circulation for more than one-hundred years, and many versions of the supposed inscription have been described. The earliest instance known to\u00a0QI\u00a0of this prototypical claim was printed in the August 1908 issue of a periodical for bicyclists called \u201cBassett\u2019s Scrap Book\u201d. Despite that, however,  it appears to be one of the oldest memes I have ever come across, which has to count for something!<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.&#8221; &#8211; Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC Note: Although I mostly posted this because I think it&#8217;s funny, I feel compelled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/11\/17\/the-more-things-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The more things change&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}