{"id":2210,"date":"2010-07-10T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2010-07-10T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:57:16","slug":"spain-vs-holland-the-eighty-years-war-in-90-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Spain vs. Holland: The Eighty Years War in 90 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surrender-of-breda-diego-velazquez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surrender-of-breda-diego-velazquez.jpg\" alt=\"surrender-of-breda-diego-velazquez\" title=\"surrender-of-breda-diego-velazquez\" width=\"450\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the everything-old-is-new-again department, Spain and Holland will re-enact the Eighty Years War in tomorrow&#8217;s World Cup final. One can only hope the match does not mirror that long-ago conflict, which was a plodding war of attrition, fought primarily on neutral turf, with much brutality and few moments of heroic action. Rubens, of course, tried desperately to bring a halt to that conflict\u2014the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Master-Shadows-Secret-Diplomatic-Painter\/dp\/0385523793\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1239483977&#038;sr=8-2\">my book<\/a>. For a bit more on how the World Cup will channel the first truly global war, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/world-cup-2010-spain-vs-holland-re-enact-16th-century-war-but-in-less-time\/\">my essay at Mediaite<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[For the record: The image above, Velazquez&#8217;s <em>Surrender at Breda<\/em>, marks one of the signal Spanish victories in the war, though it had essentially no effect on the eventual outcome.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the everything-old-is-new-again department, Spain and Holland will re-enact the Eighty Years War in tomorrow&#8217;s World Cup final. One can only hope the match does not mirror that long-ago conflict, which was a plodding war of attrition, fought primarily on neutral turf, with much brutality and few moments of heroic action. Rubens, of course, tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spain vs. Holland: The Eighty Years War in 90 Minutes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}