{"id":441,"date":"2004-11-09T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=441"},"modified":"2006-10-08T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T08:24:10","slug":"439-of-celebrating-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"[439] Of celebrating freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Somehow, it feels like hundreds of years ago when in fact, I was 7 back then. Innocent and ignorant.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/Conrad_Schumann.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>East German border guard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conrad_Schumann\">Conrad Schumann<\/a> leaps to the West over barbed wire in Berlin on August 15, 1961. Photo by Peter Leibing.<br \/>\nPublic Domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Without freedom, life is not worth living<br \/>\n&#8211; unknown<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To freedom, for eternity. Though if I somehow find myself in hell, there might be a little complication with my idealism. But I&#8217;m sure God is negotiable. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Somehow, it feels like hundreds of years ago when in fact, I was 7 back then. Innocent and ignorant. East German border guard Conrad Schumann leaps to the West over barbed wire in Berlin on August 15, 1961. Photo by Peter Leibing. Public Domain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}