{"id":1046,"date":"2004-06-04T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2022-10-09T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T17:43:34","slug":"can-it-really-be-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Can It Really Be 15 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/06\/tieneman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/06\/tieneman.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/06\/tieneman-200x130.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/06\/tieneman-400x260.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/06\/tieneman-100x65.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remember where I was, what I was doing, everything, when I heard what had happened on June 4, 15 years ago.  What a time.  What a crazy time.  The crack-up of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev&#8217;s visit to Beijing, the &#8220;Lady Liberty&#8221; statue in the middle of the packed square, I remember a shot of one Chinese student holding up a huge sign in English: &#8220;GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH&#8221; &#8211; which moved me immensely.  The words of Patrick Henry, resonating still, in another country, another culture &#8230; and then the crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>It was devastating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember where I was, what I was doing, everything, when I heard what had happened on June 4, 15 years ago. What a time. What a crazy time. The crack-up of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev&#8217;s visit to Beijing, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[146,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177976,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/177976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}