{"id":186040,"date":"2014-06-04T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/04\/25-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:55:00","slug":"25-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/04\/25-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PJN0mMc.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[tienanmen]\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PJN0mMc.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><i><br \/>The most famous news photo of the 1980s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DfLqyie.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[tienanmen]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DfLqyie.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>The long shot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NKWE956.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[tienanmen]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NKWE956.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>A ground level shot about a minute earlier (on the left side between the two trees in the background)<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The Tienanmen massacre.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all been swept under the rug, and to the degree that anyone in China thinks about it, it&#8217;s in the context of a highly restrictive media environment which mischaracterizes the events of that day.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders when the people who did this will be made accountable through either the justice system or via the judgement of history.<\/p>\n<p>If these guys are any indication:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/220px-Kent_State_massacre_zpsf43ba38b.jpg\" width=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t ever happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous news photo of the 1980s The long shot A ground level shot about a minute earlier (on the left side between the two trees in the background) The Tienanmen massacre. That&#8217;s all been swept under the rug, and to the degree that anyone in China thinks about it, it&#8217;s in the context &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1011,1006,1049],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-history","category-military","category-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}