{"id":6854,"date":"2016-12-23T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2016-12-23T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T08:53:54","slug":"40-years-on-from-tbilisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/12\/23\/40-years-on-from-tbilisi\/","title":{"rendered":"40 years on from Tbilisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2017 will see the 40th anniversary of the Tbilisi conference and declaration which, at the time, we seen by many to be full of promise for a better future. \u00a0We shall no doubt be urged to remember Tbilisi and celebrate the event, even though it was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7PSlm4LU58\">T+35 conference<\/a>\u00a0a mere 5 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I spent week in Tbilisi around the Millennium (well after the eponymous event). \u00a0As this was before I started blogging,\u00a0the world was spared a running commentary on my never to be forgotten experiences which included\u00a0disenfranchised millers, chained bears, and\u00a0the world's best bread. \u00a0I did write a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/09\/24\/tbilisi-redux\/\">fragment<\/a>\u00a0in 2012, however.<\/p>\n<p>But how to remember Tbilisi? \u00a0I suppose it depends whether you want to celebrate it\u00a0as a landmark event which changed how we see the world, or whether you want to use the opportunity for a sober analysis of how effective \/ ineffective an event it was at changing the world. \u00a0You could do both at a pinch, but the hurrahing might drown out the sober analysis. \u00a0In very many ways the world might be said to be a better place than in 1977 (and a worse one), but was this anything to do with Tbilisi?<\/p>\n<p>Expect much more on this as the year unfolds. \u00a0Meanwhile, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljDUKgL1sUI\">here<\/a> to see\u00a0a Soviet video nasty about the original. \u00a0Much better with the Russian commentary turned off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 will see the 40th anniversary of the Tbilisi conference and declaration which, at the time, we seen by many to be full of promise for a better future. \u00a0We shall no doubt be urged to remember Tbilisi and celebrate...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}