{"id":2196,"date":"2008-08-04T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2008-11-16T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:10:26","slug":"if-one-is-forever-cautious-can-one-remain-a-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy and Rurik emailed me last night to tell me that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/03\/AR2008080301249.html?hpid=artslot\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had died last night<\/a>. Amy knows how much I loved to read Solzhenitsyn. I first read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Day-Life-Ivan-Denisovich\/dp\/0451531043\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1217850962&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<\/a>&#8220;, his first book, years ago and everything I could get my hands on after that.<\/p>\n<p>To my generation, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a hero of immense stature. He spent 1945 to 1953 in the Stalinist gulags for writing a single letter that criticized Stalin while he was an artillery officer and hero in the Red Guard. After his release, he continued writing without publishing until Krushev denounced Stalin&#8217;s &#8220;cult of personality&#8221;. When he lost favor with the Soviets, he was forcibly retired but his manuscripts continued to be smuggled to the West. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. Twenty years later he returned to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>His place in world history and literature is secure. I hope he finds the rest he so desperately deserves. Rurik writes more at <a href=\"http:\/\/talon.eaglesup.us\/?p=183\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles Up! Talon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I urge everyone to read &#8220;One Day&#8230;&#8221; It&#8217;s a short read, but it&#8217;ll change your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy and Rurik emailed me last night to tell me that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had died last &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2196\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}