{"id":1568,"date":"2008-02-22T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2008-02-22T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T00:50:24","slug":"the-reluctant-communist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/the-reluctant-communist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Communist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/pages\/10992.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/pages\/images\/10992.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\"\/><\/a>Last night I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crossing_the_Line_%28film%29\"><i>Crossing the Line<\/i><\/a>, an amazing documentary about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=James_Joseph_Dresnok&#038;printable=yes\">Joe Dresnok<\/a>, the last American defector to North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>After putzing around the Internet, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that one of Dresnok&#8217;s fellow defectors, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Robert_Jenkins\">Charles Robert Jenkins<\/a>, who has since left North Korea for Japan, is about to come out with a book. His book previous had only been published in Japanese and Korean, and is finally scheduled for release early next month in English, published by UC Press.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched Crossing the Line, an amazing documentary about Joe Dresnok, the last American defector to North Korea. After putzing around the Internet, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that one of Dresnok&#8217;s fellow defectors, Charles Robert Jenkins, who has since left North Korea for Japan, is about to come out with a book. His book previous had only been published in Japanese and Korean, and is finally scheduled for release early next month in English, published&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":[26,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-books","category-north-korea","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-pi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}