{"id":963050,"date":"2023-01-20T06:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=272045"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:38:25","slug":"the-velvet-divorce-of-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/20\/the-velvet-divorce-of-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Velvet Divorce of the Czech Republic and Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, I was in Prague and Bratislava to cover the &#8220;velvet divorce&#8221; between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Slovaks were celebrating their separation from the Czech Republic in the squares og Bratislave, even though it was 0 Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius). The snowy streets of Prague, on the other hand, were  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/20\/the-velvet-divorce-of-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/20\/the-velvet-divorce-of-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia\/\">The Velvet Divorce of the Czech Republic and Slovakia<\/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\/01\/20\/the-velvet-divorce-of-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, I was in Prague and Bratislava to cover the &#8220;velvet divorce&#8221; between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Slovaks were celebrating their separation from the Czech Republic in the squares og Bratislave, even though it was 0&#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\/963050"}],"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=963050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963051,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963050\/revisions\/963051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}