{"id":1053496,"date":"2023-04-07T05:45:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=278578"},"modified":"2023-04-07T05:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T05:45:10","slug":"the-kidnapping-of-europe-according-to-kundera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/04\/07\/the-kidnapping-of-europe-according-to-kundera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kidnapping of Europe According to Kundera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geographical Europe has always been divided into two halves that have evolved separately: one, linked to ancient Rome with the Latin alphabet as its hallmark, is anchored in the Catholic Church; the other is linked to Byzantium, the Orthodox Church and the Cyrillic alphabet. Since 1945, according to the novelist Milan Kundera in his essay  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/07\/the-kidnapping-of-europe-according-to-kundera\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/07\/the-kidnapping-of-europe-according-to-kundera\/\">The Kidnapping of Europe According to Kundera<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/07\/the-kidnapping-of-europe-according-to-kundera\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geographical Europe has always been divided into two halves that have evolved separately: one, linked to ancient Rome with the Latin alphabet as its hallmark, is anchored in the Catholic Church; the other is linked to Byzantium, the Orthodox Church and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053497,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053496\/revisions\/1053497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}