{"id":2808,"date":"2012-03-11T23:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2012-03-11T23:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:09:13","slug":"pyongyang-at-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang at dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been meaning to write about this since last month, when news photographer Damir Sagolj <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/photographers-blog\/tag\/world-press-photo\/\">won a World Press award<\/a> for his photograph of a North Korean building complex with the well lit picture of Kim Il-Sung highlighting a wall:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NorthKorea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2809\" title=\"NorthKorea\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NorthKorea-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NorthKorea-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NorthKorea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NorthKorea.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s an amazing shot. All those drab buildings with their dark windows, and the single source of light is the portrait of the Great Leader represent North Korean society in a way words cannot. I can almost visualize this image as part of some post-apocalyptic computer game.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2808' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been meaning to write about this since last month, when news photographer Damir Sagolj won a World Press award for his photograph of a North Korean building complex with the well lit picture of Kim Il-Sung highlighting a wall: I think it&#8217;s an amazing shot. All those drab buildings with their dark windows, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2808' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics","category-society","category-54-id","category-5-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}