{"id":1794,"date":"2008-07-17T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T16:08:22","slug":"food-for-thought-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/food-for-thought-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The first in an occasional series of quotes worth pondering at greater length while in search of a European identity:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Peace, solidarity and cooperation are only conceivable among peoples and nations who know who they are&#8230; If I don&#8217;t know who I am, who I want to be, what I want to achieve, where I begin and where I end, then my relations with the people around me and the world at large will inevitably be tense, suspicious and burdened by an inferiority complex that may go hidden behind puffed-up bravura.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V%C3%A1clav_Havel\"><strong>Vaclav Havel<\/strong><\/a>, quoted in Geert Mak, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FEurope-Travels-Through-Twentieth-Century%2Fdp%2F009951673X&#038;tag=jcmorguk-21&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\">In Europe: Travels through the twentieth century<\/a>, p.48)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first in an occasional series of quotes worth pondering at greater length while in search of a European identity: &#8220;Peace, solidarity and cooperation are only conceivable among peoples and nations who know who they are&#8230; If I don&#8217;t know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/food-for-thought-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}