{"id":245,"date":"2003-10-24T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2020-11-11T11:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:12:59","slug":"news_bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"news bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>current selection<\/b> | si*se \u2013 <i>steppin\u2019 out<\/i><br><b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>friday<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">i usually don\u2019t bring up news (aside from the occasional frightening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/000103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statistic<\/a> of religion in the u.s.), but i saw this fitting. madame chiang, the wife of chiang kai-shek, died yesterday in manhattan at the age of 106. for those without prior knowledge of china and taiwans history, chiang kai-shek and the kuomintang overthrew the last emperor of china. through subsequent events, china eventually fell into a civil war and the kuomintang fled to taiwan, where they established a democracy. the kuomintang remained in power til just recently when the presidency was won by a non-kuomintang, chen shui-bian. one could liken chiang kai-shek to the george washington of taiwan\u2026though it was madame chiang who brought taiwan to the eyes of the international community. after chiang kai-shek\u2019s death in 1975, madame chiang moved to the u.s., where she\u2019s resided ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/east\/10\/24\/obit.madame.chiang.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article from cnn<\/a><br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/poy2000\/archive\/1937.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">time\u2019s persons of the year, 1937<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/madamechiang1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6574\"><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>current selection | si*se \u2013 steppin\u2019 outfeelin\u2019 | friday i usually don\u2019t bring up news (aside from the occasional frightening statistic of religion in the u.s.), but i saw this fitting. madame chiang, the wife of chiang kai-shek, died yesterday in manhattan at the age of 106. for those without prior knowledge of china and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-shit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}