{"id":16717,"date":"2022-08-26T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:59:25","slug":"a-rift-in-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16717","title":{"rendered":"A Rift in the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Rift in the Earth <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by James Reston<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a short book that tells the story of the building of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC. \u201cOur nation lost its will for the war, and yet didn\u2019t have the courage to stop it.” Maya Lin’s simple but moving memorial is a fitting tribute to those who gave there lives in this lost cause. Reston’s story of the “Art wars” that were fought over its construction is worth reading. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Lots of Maya Lin quotes here.<\/a> I have been to the Vietnam Memorial and it was very emotional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Rift in the Earth by James Reston This is a short book that tells the story of the building of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC. \u201cOur nation lost its will for the war, and yet didn\u2019t have the courage to stop it.” Maya Lin’s simple but moving memorial is a fitting tribute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[80,196,651],"class_list":["post-16717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-recommendations","tag-books","tag-recommend","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-11.36.55-AM.png?fit=712%2C1072&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4lD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16719,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions\/16719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}