{"id":707843,"date":"2026-10-04T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=707843"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:49:30","slug":"two-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=707843","title":{"rendered":"two statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kristof_Poland\/status\/2106731449512538387\">https:\/\/x.com\/Kristof_Poland\/status\/2106731449512538387<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..    Today almost nobody arrives that way. You land at an airport: a corridor, a stamp, a taxi. No statue. No flame. Nobody tells you what this place is for.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that is part of the problem now. Not just who arrives \u2013 but that nobody greets them with the idea any more. Not the statue, not the school, not the country itself. A civilization that stops telling newcomers what it stands for soon forgets it itself.<\/p>\n<p>The flame still exists. A French foundry, Atelier Missor, has just raised a bronze Prometheus with a torch beside the launch site of the rockets built for Mars \u2013 paid for by the sculptors themselves, the way Liberty was paid for by ordinary people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/x.com\/Kristof_Poland\/status\/2106731449512538387 &#8230;.. Today almost nobody arrives that way. You land at an airport: a corridor, a stamp, a taxi. No statue. No flame. Nobody tells you what this place is for. Maybe that is part of the problem now. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=707843\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707845,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707843\/revisions\/707845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}