{"id":4628,"date":"2021-03-22T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:49:16","slug":"one-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"One wonders\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"post--body-links--wrapper\"><span class=\"post--body--wrapper\">\u201cAnd how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you\u2019d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post--body-links--wrapper\"><span class=\"post--body--wrapper\">-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918\u20131956<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One wonders\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,125,85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-of-the-constitution","category-evil","category-democrats","category-politics","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}