{"id":442,"date":"2016-01-31T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/?p=442"},"modified":"2016-01-31T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:05:07","slug":"what-we-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2016\/01\/what-we-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"A glimpse at what we lost when we abandoned classical education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Wesley Callihan on the opening lines of Julius Caesar&#8217;s Gallic Wars<\/h3>\n<p>Mark Twain is attributed with the saying <em>&#8220;Those who don&#8217;t read have no advantage over those who can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are now a couple generations away\u00a0from our forefathers who abandoned classical education. We are now the generation that does not even know what it has lost. Wes Callihan gives a \u00a0glimpse at the kind of richness we have lost in this excerpt from the<a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/courses\/the-historians\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Old Western Culture<\/a> curriculum on the great books of Western civilization. If you don&#8217;t study the classics, you have no advantage over\u00a0those\u00a0who can&#8217;t. Roman Roads Media provides tools to help you accomplish this task! <a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/courses\/the-greeks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get started today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/153314358?color=ffffff&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hPz0yTPY0vo\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/what-we-lost-gallic-wars.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5695\" src=\"http:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/what-we-lost-gallic-wars-1024x533.jpg\" alt=\"what we lost - gallic wars\" width=\"740\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/2016\/01\/what-we-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Roads Media blog<\/a>. Written by Daniel Foucachon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Callihan on the opening lines of Julius Caesar&#8217;s Gallic Wars Mark Twain is attributed with the saying &#8220;Those who don&#8217;t read have no advantage over those who can&#8217;t.&#8221; We are now a couple generations away\u00a0from our forefathers who abandoned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2016\/01\/what-we-lost\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,43,78,137],"tags":[143,139,140,141,142],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical-education","category-classics","category-daniel-foucachon","category-roman-roads-media","tag-classical-education","tag-daniel-foucachon","tag-roman-roads-media","tag-wes-callihan","tag-wesley-callihan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}