{"id":536,"date":"2010-04-09T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/04\/has-there-been-progress-since-1250-ii.html"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:14:43","slug":"has-there-been-progress-since-1250-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/04\/has-there-been-progress-since-1250-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Has There Been Progress Since 1250?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even in backward mining communities, as late as the sixteenth century more than half the recorded days were holidays; while for Europe as a whole, the total number of holidays, including Sunday, came to 189, a number even greater than those enjoyed by Imperial Rome. Nothing more clearly indicates a surplus of food and human energy, if not material goods. Modern labor-saving devices have as yet done no better.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Quoted from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0156623412?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lowtemagaz-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0156623412\">Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lowtemagaz-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0156623412\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\">&#8220;, Lewis Mumford, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><\/span>1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even in backward mining communities, as late as the sixteenth century more than half the recorded days were holidays; while for Europe as a whole, the total number of holidays, including Sunday, came to 189, a number even greater than those enjoyed by Imperial Rome. Nothing more clearly indicates a surplus of food and human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153,99,171],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}