{"id":852,"date":"2008-08-20T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=852"},"modified":"2018-11-13T00:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:57:25","slug":"40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/40-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"40 years ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/0820_4371.gif\" alt=\"0820_4371.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Prague, Czech Republic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time does indeed slip by quickly (and yet little seems to change)\u2026 I vividly recall the Russian surprise-invasion of Czechoslovakia on this day in 1968. Living in (West) Germany at the time (the event sent shock-waves throughout Europe) I joined peaceful protest rallies in Basel (where I was attending school, just across the Swiss border)\u2014my first active political involvement as a 14-year-old. Read the <em>NYT<\/em> invasion story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/learning\/general\/onthisday\/big\/0820.html#article\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prague, Czech Republic Time does indeed slip by quickly (and yet little seems to change)\u2026 I vividly recall the Russian surprise-invasion of Czechoslovakia on this day in 1968. Living in (West) Germany at the time (the event sent shock-waves throughout Europe) I joined peaceful protest rallies in Basel (where I was attending school, just across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,14,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16805,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/16805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}