{"id":182782,"date":"2021-05-28T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203008"},"modified":"2021-05-28T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T09:00:48","slug":"trapped-in-the-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/28\/trapped-in-the-whirlwind\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in the Whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first sight I did not like him. The young man, a boy really, seemed to resemble the\u00a0 comical clash of his first and last name, which could have been Matthew Flunkt or Hamilton Crisp.\u00a0 Look at him. See how the unrelated words fill his face, call to mind a fool who will breed only grief and sorrow. Look at the boy-man sent to take my place in third platoon. It\u2019s time to leave but I cannot leave them. Should I or shouldn\u2019t I? I set down my gear. Extend my hand. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/28\/trapped-in-the-whirlwind\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/28\/trapped-in-the-whirlwind\/\">Trapped in the Whirlwind<\/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\/2021\/05\/28\/trapped-in-the-whirlwind\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first sight I did not like him. The young man, a boy really, seemed to resemble the\u00a0 comical clash of his first and last name, which could have been Matthew Flunkt or Hamilton Crisp.\u00a0 Look at him. See how the unrelated words fill his face, call to m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182782"}],"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\/5441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182944,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182782\/revisions\/182944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}