{"id":1223,"date":"2007-01-24T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T10:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2007-01-24T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T10:13:14","slug":"ryszard-kapuscinski-1932-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/ryszard-kapuscinski-1932-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932 &#8211; 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryszard_Kapu%C5%9Bci%C5%84ski\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/kapucinski.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6293005.stm\">BBC<\/a>: <i>Poland&#8217;s most celebrated journalist and non-fiction writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, has died in Warsaw, aged 74, after a heart operation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I first discovered Kapuscinski after being given a copy of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shadow-Sun-Ryszard-Kapuscinski\/dp\/0679779078\">The Shadow of the Sun<\/a><\/i> by my good friends Alan Wiig and Brynna Jacobson shortly before I embarked on my first voyage to Senegal in 2002. His depictions of West Africa resonated with me and my experience 50 years after he wrote them.  <\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m hardly an expert on Africa, it remains one of my favorite books on the continent, and one of my favorite travel books of all time. I wish that one day I could become half the writer that he was. <\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Ryszard. You will continue to be an inspiration to me, and to many future generations of journalists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Poland&#8217;s most celebrated journalist and non-fiction writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, has died in Warsaw, aged 74, after a heart operation. I first discovered Kapuscinski after being given a copy of The Shadow of the Sun by my good friends Alan Wiig and Brynna Jacobson shortly before I embarked on my first voyage to Senegal in 2002. His depictions of West Africa resonated with me and my experience 50 years after he wrote them. While I&#8217;m hardly an expert on Africa,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,26,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}