{"id":78555,"date":"2021-06-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78555"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:04:47","slug":"speaking-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78555","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Moth Radio Hour&#8221; &#8211; a public radio production featuring the modern version of &#8220;storytelling&#8221; &#8211; is an often-insufferable bit of radio, featuring stories by people who are just not especially compelling.  And yes, I&#8221;m stereotyping very broadly here, but prove me wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No &#8211; I&#8217;ll prove myself wrong.  This story &#8211; by one Victor Levenstein, who was 94 when he was recorded for the program &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/themoth.org\/storytellers\/victor-levenstein\">told the story of his arrest and interrogation by the KGB in 1944<\/a>, before a New York audience&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;which, one must imagine, is largely composed of people who unironically think The Right is the &#8220;side&#8221; in modern politics who&#8217;d bring that sort of thing back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Moth Radio Hour&#8221; &#8211; a public radio production featuring the modern version of &#8220;storytelling&#8221; &#8211; is an often-insufferable bit of radio, featuring stories by people who are just not especially compelling. And yes, I&#8221;m stereotyping very broadly here, but prove me wrong. No &#8211; I&#8217;ll prove myself wrong. This story &#8211; by one Victor [&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-78555","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\/78555","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=78555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78559,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78555\/revisions\/78559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}