{"id":118507,"date":"2020-03-06T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=118507"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:57:22","slug":"president-of-iceland-delivers-a-lecture-at-the-university-of-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/president-of-iceland-delivers-a-lecture-at-the-university-of-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Iceland delivers a lecture at the University of Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President of Iceland, Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson delivered a lecture &#8220;Defending Asgard, independence and human rights. The use of history in current affairs\u201d at the University of Warsaw. The meeting was part of his official visit to Poland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson, before taking office as President of Iceland in 2016, was a professor of history at the University of Iceland. He is a valued author of historical books.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech entitled &#8220;Defending Asgard, independence and human rights. The use of history in current affairs\u201d, the President of Iceland referred to the good and bad sides of using history in contemporary activities. He raised issues related to Norse mythology connected with the land of Asgard.<\/p>\n<p>-We must defend our ancient heritage against its misuse by racist extremists. We must defend diversity, freedom and tolerance. Ancient customs and sources should be used in their defense &#8211; said the President of Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Iceland, Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson delivered a lecture &#8220;Defending Asgard, independence and human rights. The use of history in current affairs\u201d at the University of Warsaw. The meeting was part of his official visit to Poland. Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson, before taking office as President of Iceland in 2016, was a professor of history at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}