{"id":1477,"date":"2007-10-19T04:35:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T09:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2007-10-19T04:35:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T09:35:28","slug":"poetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Poetic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelan monument to child-murdering thug and lefty collegiate hero Che Guevara was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/sunbin\/stories\/w-sa\/2007\/oct\/19\/101902968.html\">destroyed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara was shot up and destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>Images of the 8-foot-tall glass plate bearing Guevara&#8217;s image, now toppled and shattered, were shown Friday on state television, which said the entire country &#8220;repudiated&#8221; the vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>The monument on an Andean mountain highway near the city of Merida was unveiled Oct. 8 by Vice President Jorge Rodriguez and Cuba&#8217;s ambassador to Venezuela to mark the 40th anniversary of Guevara&#8217;s death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Venezuela &#8220;repudiates&#8221; the &#8220;vandalism&#8221;, this blog applauds it, and offers the vandals (upon confirmation) a beer while in Saint Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelan monument to child-murdering thug and lefty collegiate hero Che Guevara was destroyed: A glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara was shot up and destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez&#8217;s government. Images of the 8-foot-tall glass plate bearing Guevara&#8217;s image, now toppled and shattered, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}