{"id":23998,"date":"2017-05-19T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23998"},"modified":"2017-05-19T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T23:54:00","slug":"warnings-from-mount-vesuvius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23998","title":{"rendered":"Warnings from Mount Vesuvius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warnings from Mount Vesuvius<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\u201cInjustice, swift, erect, and unconfin\u2019d,
\nSweeps the wide earth, and tramples o\u2019er mankind\u201d \u2013 Homer, The Iliad<\/p>\n

When Mount Vesuvius Blew<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Everything was just the way it was supposed to be in Pompeii on August 24, 79 A.D.\u00a0 The gods had bestowed wealth and abundance upon the inhabitants of this Roman trading town.\u00a0 Things were near perfect.<\/p>\n

The lucky residents of Pompeii lived in large homes with elegant courtyard gardens and all the modern conveniences.\u00a0 Rooms were heated by hot air flowing through cavity walls and spaces under the floors.\u00a0 Running water was provided to the city from a great reservoir and conveyed through underground pipelines to houses and public buildings.<\/p>\n

Fresh fish from the Bay of Naples were readily available in the Macellum (great food market) and countless cauponae (small restaurants).\u00a0 Entertainment was on hand at the large amphitheatre.\u00a0 Life was agreeable, affable, and idyllic for all \u2013 and it was only getting better.\u00a0 Everyone just knew it.\u00a0 They could feel it.\u00a0 They believed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

By 79 A.D. Pompeii had experienced nearly uninterrupted advancement from its founding almost 700 years earlier.\u00a0 That this would ever change was unthinkable.\u00a0 On the morning of August 24th, who but a doomsayer would suggest there wouldn\u2019t be another 700 years of progress?<\/p>\n

Yet, just then, when things couldn\u2019t have seemed more certain, Mount Vesuvius blew.\u00a0 Nineteen hours later, where there had been life and a thriving civilization, there was silence for the next 1,669 years.<\/p>\n

Praying for Death<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Viewing events through the lens of history and hindsight is unfair to its participants. \u00a0Their missteps are too obvious, their vanities are too abundant, and their inferiorities too absurd.\u00a0 They appear to be mere imbeciles on parade.<\/p>\n

Was George Armstrong Custer really just an arrogant Lieutenant Colonel who led his men to massacre at Little Bighorn?\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Especially when Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and numbers over three times his cavalry appeared across the river.<\/p>\n

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Warnings from Mount Vesuvius \u201cInjustice, swift, erect, and unconfin\u2019d, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o\u2019er mankind\u201d \u2013 Homer, The Iliad When Mount Vesuvius Blew Everything was just the way it was supposed to be in Pompeii on August 24, 79 A.D.\u00a0 The gods had bestowed wealth and abundance upon the inhabitants of this Roman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12043,11763,15325,15326],"class_list":["post-23998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economic-prism","tag-mn-gordon","tag-mount-vesuvius","tag-pompeii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23999,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions\/23999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}