{"id":2981,"date":"2009-06-04T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2009-06-04T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T21:49:35","slug":"today-marks-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tianasquare-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"tianasquare\" title=\"tianasquare\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tianasquare-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tianasquare.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes as Americans we forget about or neglect the humanity of non-Americans. <\/p>\n<p>On June 4th, 1989, the Chinese government killed nearly 2700 demonstrators in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989\" >Tiananmen Square<\/a> and subsequently arrested and imprisoned thousands more in order to suppress dissident voices.<\/p>\n<p>Without going into <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/tankman\/view\/\" >a history lesson<\/a>, which I&#8217;m not at all qualified to do, let&#8217;s just remember <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1885961,00.html\" >their fight<\/a> still lives on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes as Americans we forget about or neglect the humanity of non-Americans. On June 4th, 1989, the Chinese government killed nearly 2700 demonstrators in Tiananmen Square and subsequently arrested and imprisoned thousands more in order to suppress dissident voices. Without going into a history lesson, which I&#8217;m not at all qualified to do, let&#8217;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[958,93,206,957,956],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-politics","tag-politricks","tag-tank-man","tag-tiananmen-square-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buhbomp.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}