{"id":34791,"date":"2013-03-27T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34791"},"modified":"2013-03-27T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:29:51","slug":"berlin-wall-almost-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34791","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Wall almost gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West German government did like the East Germans did when they erected the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 &#8211; they came in the pre-dawn hours with scores of police while construction crews dismantled a large portion of the Wall today in order to avoid protesters who were locked in a dispute with the developer seeking to destroy the Wall for development, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pre-dawn-operation-removes-part-berlin-wall-120324155.html\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 136 people died trying to scale the wall that divided communist-run East Berlin from West Berlin. Over the years, the stretch has become a tourist attraction with colorful paintings decorating the old concrete tiles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe they came here in the dark in such a sneaky manner,&#8221; said Kani Alavi, the head of the East Side Gallery&#8217;s artists&#8217; group. &#8220;All they see is their money, they have no understanding for the historic relevance and art of this place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the old government is like the new government when they set their minds to something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West German government did like the East Germans did when they erected the Berlin Wall &hellip; <a title=\"Berlin Wall almost gone\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34791\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berlin Wall almost gone<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791","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=34791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}