{"id":41313,"date":"2022-11-07T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=41313"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:38:18","slug":"war-against-the-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/lotte-jensen\/war-against-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotte Jensen &#8211; War Against the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">For centuries the Dutch have waged a war against the water. Many times we were able to tame the \u2018water-wolf,\u2019 but just as often we have faced devastating floods such as the St. Elizabeth\u2019s Flood of 1421 or the North Sea flood of 1953. Vulnerability and pride go hand in hand in cultural depictions of these catastrophic events. In photos, stories and monuments, writers and artists highlight both the disastrous consequences for these communities as well as their resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">War Against the Water<\/span><\/em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> tells the story of floating cradles carrying infants, Dutch lions, fatherly monarchs, community fundraisers, and the boy who put his finger in the dike. But Lotte Jensen also shows how the cultural imagination gains new relevance over time. With rising sea levels now representing a growing threat, acknowledging our vulnerability is more important than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the book For centuries the Dutch have waged a war against the water. Many times we were able to tame the \u2018water-wolf,\u2019 but just as often we have faced devastating floods such as the St. Elizabeth\u2019s Flood of 1421 or the North Sea flood of 1953. Vulnerability and pride go hand in hand in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3251,"featured_media":41319,"parent":41301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41313","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41313\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/41319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}