{"id":563,"date":"2008-08-04T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-08-04T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T13:06:27","slug":"i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/08\/04\/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"I read the news today, oh boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-563\">\n<p>I read the NY Times with sadness today.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/04\/books\/04solzhenitsyn.html?ref=world\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/a> has died.  I remember reading his books in high school, most notably The First Circle, but also Cancer Ward and of course &#8220;A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.&#8221;  I even selected one of his books, the first book in the Gulag trilogy, for a book report for my advanced-placement English class.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/05india.html?ref=world\" target=\"_blank\">at least 148 people died in a stampede in India<\/a>.  A large number of pilgrims had gathered in Naina Devi, a hilltop temple in the state of Himachal Pradesh.  When rumors started that an avalanche had started or a bomb set off, a human stampede followed.  Rumor has it that at least 50 of the dead are children.<\/p>\n<p>And third, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/05K2.html?ref=world\" target=\"_blank\">at least 11 climbers are dead on K2<\/a>, the second highest peak in the world and perhaps the hardest to climb.  Apparently an ice outcrop broke off and cut a set of ropes for descending on the Pakistani side of the mountain.  There are still 4 missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-563\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 563);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-563\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-563\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the NY Times with sadness today. First, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died. I remember reading his books in high school, most notably The First Circle, but also Cancer Ward and of course &#8220;A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.&#8221; I even selected one of his books, the first book in the Gulag trilogy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[255,256,258,175,257],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn","tag-k2","tag-naina-devi","tag-ny-times","tag-stampede"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-95","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}