{"id":1515,"date":"2007-12-30T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2007-12-30T05:55:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T13:55:24","slug":"jaan-kross-1920-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/30\/jaan-kross-1920-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaan Kross, 1920 &#8211; 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/jaan-kross.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The world has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/12\/28\/europe\/EU-GEN-Estonia-Obit-Kross.php\">lost<\/a> its most preeminent Estonian writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Jaan_Kross\">Jaan Kross<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I don&#8217;t have the <i>eesti keeles<\/i> skills to have read him in his native language, but on my most recent trip to Eestimaa, I was happy to have been able to find a copy of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Treading_Air\">Treading Air<\/a><\/i>, which I&#8217;m currently reading now. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just a little bit into it &#8212; so I don&#8217;t have much to say about the novel just yet &#8212; but my fascination with all things Estonian makes me saddened that the community has lost such a well-respected writer.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/palun.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/tsars-madman.html\">Itching for Eestimaa<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has lost its most preeminent Estonian writer, Jaan Kross. Sadly, I don&#8217;t have the eesti keeles skills to have read him in his native language, but on my most recent trip to Eestimaa, I was happy to have been able to find a copy of Treading Air, which I&#8217;m currently reading now. I&#8217;m just a little bit into it &#8212; so I don&#8217;t have much to say about the novel just yet &#8212; but my fascination with all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}