{"id":15776,"date":"2011-11-24T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=15776"},"modified":"2019-12-25T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T10:04:12","slug":"durant-william-james-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/durant-william-james-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant, William James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William(Will) James<\/strong> <strong>D<\/strong><strong>urant <\/strong><strong>(1885-1981) <\/strong>was a renowned American <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/durant-1-sized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26780\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/durant-1-sized-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"durant-1-sized\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/durant-1-sized-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/durant-1-sized.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>philosopher and\u00a0 historian. In 1968 Will and his wife Ariel won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. He is probably best known for his eleven volume work <em>The Story of Civilisation <\/em>published over a forty-year period, which is now available as a series of pdf files<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.\u00a0There is also a website devoted to his work<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In the first volume of <em>The Story of Civilisation <\/em>Durant claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schliemann-heinrich\/\">Heinrich Schliemann <\/a>\u201cbelieved that Atlantis had served as a mediating link between the cultures of Europe and\u00a0 Yucatan, and that Egyptian civilization had been brought from Atlantis.\u201d However, I would suggest that this statement be treated with caution as it may have stemmed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schliemann-paul\/\">Paul Schliemann<\/a> hoax perpetrated just a\u00a0few decades earlier<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130103092851\/https:\/\/www.willdurant.com\/home.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130103092851\/https:\/\/www.willdurant.com\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b) <\/span><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheStoryOfCivilizationcomplete\/page\/n0\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheStoryOfCivilizationcomplete\/page\/n0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William(Will) James Durant (1885-1981) was a renowned American philosopher and\u00a0 historian. In 1968 Will and his wife Ariel won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. He is probably best known for his eleven volume work The Story of Civilisation published over a forty-year period, which is now available as a series of pdf files(b).\u00a0There is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342,227,5737,3950,36],"class_list":["post-15776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heinrich-schliemann","tag-paul-schliemann","tag-will-durant","tag-william-durant","tag-yucatan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}