{"id":2562,"date":"2017-03-08T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:00:55","slug":"a-gem-of-a-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"A Gem of a Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am wont to do at times, I&#8217;m delving into a subject deeply for no apparent reason other than a friend mentioned it and it sparked my interest to read further on it. The subject in this case is the Chilean Revolution of 1970-1973 that was brutally cut short by a US-supported coup d&#8217;etat against the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite old enough to qualify as &#8220;old&#8221; yet, but this still resonates with me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]here is no generation gap&#8211;there are young old people and old young people, and I place myself in the latter category.&#8221; \u2014 Salvador Allende<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes from a little-known (in the US) speech that Allende gave at a university in Mexico:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/1973\/10\/3\/salvador-allende-talks-about-latin-america\/?page=single\">Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/1973\/10\/5\/president-allende-speaks-on-health-care\/?page=single\">Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/1973\/10\/10\/our-country-is-a-silent-vietnam\/?page=single\">Part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am wont to do at times, I&#8217;m delving into a subject deeply for no apparent reason other than a friend mentioned it and it sparked my interest to read further on it. The subject in this case is the Chilean Revolution of 1970-1973 that was brutally cut short by a US-supported coup d&#8217;etat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}