{"id":1202,"date":"2004-06-19T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2015-05-12T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:58:45","slug":"sarajevo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Sarajevo, 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=014310490X&#038;asins=014310490X&#038;linkId=44IEVBOYRZTUK4I6&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThis morning I finished the chapter in Rebecca West&#8217;s <i>Black Lamb and Grey Falcon<\/i> about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in the streets of Sarajevo in June, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the book is amazing, in pretty much every way (content, writing-style, human interest, information) &#8211; but this chapter in particular is a masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>I know the story, but in a kind of bare-bones historical way.  Princip, and what happened afterwards &#8230; the importance of the assassination in a grand historical sense.<\/p>\n<p>But Rebecca West doesn&#8217;t write about history in a bare-bones way.  She gets inside of it.  She leaves things unanswered that cannot be answered (damn, if every historian and biographer on earth would take a hint from her!!) &#8211; and yet she asks all the questions.  She ponders things, she digs in the dirt, she imagines motivations and imagines what people must be thinking: <i>but she does not assume that she is right<\/i>.  It&#8217;s such a rare quality in a writer of history or historical events or biography that &#8230; it took me a second to realize: Wow.  NOBODY writes like this.  Only she does.<\/p>\n<p>The chapter (entitled &#8220;Sarajevo V&#8221;) is a masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I finished the chapter in Rebecca West&#8217;s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in the streets of Sarajevo in June, 1914. Now, the book is amazing, in pretty much every way (content, writing-style, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1202\">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":[15],"tags":[157,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"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=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100951,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/100951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}