{"id":838,"date":"2008-05-23T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-05-27T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:06:21","slug":"weekend-music-cold-war-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/23\/weekend-music-cold-war-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Music: Cold War Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/blueweeds.typepad.com\/\">some joker<\/a> made a request for Berlin, even after explicitly acknowledging that I don&#8217;t do requests.  My petty nature, naturally, made me want to pick this song, which I&#8217;m sure makes any real fan of Berlin just ache:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61WPnckcIyE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>This, however, gave me my theme for this week.  When people in the United States think of the Cold War, I suspect that their view of it was, in no small part, skewed and romanticized by that movie.  They experienced the Cold War much like Saint Ronald Reagan experienced World War II &#8211; through the movies.   They forget the enormous damage it actually did.  The human cost involved.  The fear.  The deaths.  How many times we came <em>this fucking close<\/em> to blowing up the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MPV8VAZgXmI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The Cold War had real human consequences across this planet &#8211; split nations in half, supported the most brutal of dictators, and left untold numbers dead &#8211; but never really touched the United States itself.  For that, I am thankful.  I just wish that folks here had a better appreciation of that, and how the US ought to be doing its goddamnedest to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.  Remembering that it&#8217;s Memorial Day isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, some joker made a request for Berlin, even after explicitly acknowledging that I don&#8217;t do requests. My petty nature, naturally, made me want to pick this song, which I&#8217;m sure makes any real fan of Berlin just ache: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61WPnckcIyE[\/youtube] This, however, gave me my theme for this week. When people in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}