{"id":1755,"date":"2008-08-17T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2009-02-28T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T15:40:17","slug":"1749-of-happy-63rd-anniversary-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"[1749] Of happy 63rd anniversary, Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard the Indonesian national anthem countless of times before but the first time I truly took notice was when a video was screened in a Southeast Asian history class instructed by Professor Lieberman&#8217;s all the way back when I was a freshman at Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>It was about the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of the 20th century right up to the independence of Indonesia 4 decades later.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the video, probably marking the birth of a new state and probably a nation too, after the wars, Sukarno was among a crowd, smiling and waving with <em>Indonesia Raya<\/em> playing in the background.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]8F0Hs08ktlY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>For a person that understood Indonesian language amid those whom had never learned it, I thought I felt something then. I thought I alone was the only person whom truly understood the moment of what it meant to be free. There was a sense of joy. And I thought, the music made it all the more beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard the Indonesian national anthem countless of times before but the first time I truly took notice was when a video was screened in a Southeast Asian history class instructed by Professor Lieberman&#8217;s all the way back when I was a freshman at Michigan. It was about the Dutch East Indies at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean","tag-indonesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}