{"id":4374,"date":"2013-01-01T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:02:13","slug":"21st-century-stalinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"21st century Stalinism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about Kim Jong Un&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/01\/world\/asia\/north-korea-kim-speech\/index.html\">unusual New Year&#8217;s message<\/a> when I came across this video, a documentary by Dutch filmmaker Pieter Fleury, titled <em>North Korea: A day in the life<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGE9S6svs-s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s a few years old (it was made in 2004) and despite the fact that it was obviously made under the watchful eyes of North Korea&#8217;s censors, it still speaks volumes about the world&#8217;s last Stalinist state.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4374' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about Kim Jong Un&#8217;s unusual New Year&#8217;s message when I came across this video, a documentary by Dutch filmmaker Pieter Fleury, titled North Korea: A day in the life: Even though it&#8217;s a few years old (it was made in 2004) and despite the fact that it was obviously made under the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4374' 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":[25,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-society","category-25-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\/4374","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=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}