{"id":3948,"date":"2018-12-27T09:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2018-12-27T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T09:34:56","slug":"natalia-gorbanevskaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"Natalia Gorbanevskaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/27\/the-consequences-of-the-prague-spring\/\">this article<\/a> thought-provoking for a number of reasons. As 2018 draws to a close several media sites have published stories reminiscing about Apollo\u00a08 and Earthrise, and rightly so\u00a0\u2014 when I think of 1968 I think of T\u00eat, MLK, RFK, Chicago, Prague, and Apollo\u00a08. The article&#8217;s closing paragraph is jarringly disconnected with the previous train of thought and can safely be omitted. What interested me were the names <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=2341\">Dub\u010dek<\/a>,\u00a0Kundera,\u00a0Havel,\u00a0Forman, and Gorbanevskaya, which prompted memories of the 1980s, when I read Kundera, watched Forman films, and knew of the imprisonment of people like\u00a0Gorbanevskaya who had struggled for a socialism with a human face.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 80s in a living room in Berkeley I remember my listening to Joan Baez&#8217;s plaintive sincere ballad to Gorbanevskaya being met with patronizing amusement by those who, cooler than me, preferred Talking Heads, R.E.M., and pretentious poser Bono. We age. I now read Kafka in German, continue to read of\u00a0Dub\u010dek. The Berkeley crowd feels itself tortured by Trump and yearns for capitalism with a Hillary Clinton face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article thought-provoking for a number of reasons. As 2018 draws to a close several media sites have published stories reminiscing about Apollo\u00a08 and Earthrise, and rightly so\u00a0\u2014 when I think of 1968 I think of T\u00eat, MLK, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=3948\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}