{"id":298,"date":"2014-02-01T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/01\/escape-from-camp-14\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:32","slug":"escape-from-camp-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/escape-from-camp-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape From Camp 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we have been aware that North Korea interprets the word  &#8216;liberty&#8217; in a different way to most other countries, Blaine Harden&#8217;s  book about Shin<span> Dong-Hyuk<\/span>&#8216;s unbelievable escape from a life of imprisonment, although not a major literary achievement, is  gripping, horrifying and educational. The brainwashing and the physical  deprivation that coloured Shin&#8217;s early life and formed him into the  person he later became is heartbreaking. <i>Escape from Camp 14<\/i> should be  compulsory reading for everyone, if not to put such atrocities into the  limelight then, at least, to put our own lives into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Following, a photo of Shin Dong-Hyuk. Source: <br \/><span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/escape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">amnesty.org.uk\/escape<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-E-VU3cnnPE4\/UuL-LFZYk_I\/AAAAAAAABI8\/CCIZ9zvDGDw\/s1600\/292141748_640.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-E-VU3cnnPE4\/UuL-LFZYk_I\/AAAAAAAABI8\/CCIZ9zvDGDw\/s1600\/292141748_640.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we have been aware that North Korea interprets the word &#8216;liberty&#8217; in a different way to most other countries, Blaine Harden&#8217;s book about Shin Dong-Hyuk&#8216;s unbelievable escape from a life of imprisonment, although not a major literary achievement, is gripping, horrifying and educational. The brainwashing and the physical deprivation that coloured Shin&#8217;s early life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/escape-from-camp-14\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}