{"id":932,"date":"2010-09-09T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/09\/apparently-the-ice-skating-rinks-have-opened-in-hell\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T05:07:00","slug":"apparently-the-ice-skating-rinks-have-opened-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/09\/apparently-the-ice-skating-rinks-have-opened-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently the Ice Skating Rinks Have Opened in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39070310\/ns\/world_news-americas\/\">MSNBC.com<\/a> is reporting that Fidel Castro was asked by Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2010\/09\/fidel-cuban-model-doesnt-even-work-for-us-anymore\/62602\/\">Atlantic Monthly<\/a>, whether or not Soviet style communism was still worth exporting to other countries. Castro replied that it wasn&#8217;t&#8211;and that it wasn&#8217;t even working in Cuba any more.<\/p>\n<p>Castro has also reportedly criticized Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his anti-Semitism and for denying the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Then Fidel Castro, according to MSNBC.com, criticized his own actions during the Cuban missle crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole article:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39070310\/ns\/world_news-americas\/\">Fidel Castro: Cuban model no longer works<\/a> or the article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2010\/09\/fidel-cuban-model-doesnt-even-work-for-us-anymore\/62602\/\">Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a> in Atlantic Monthly.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I felt this weird was when the Berlin Wall came down, Poland joined NATO, and the Soviet Union collapsed&#8211;and then I read Russia had started broadcasting anti-communist propaganda at Viet-Nam.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is one of those moments in history when something is shifting dramatically.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC.com is reporting that Fidel Castro was asked by Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly, whether or not Soviet style communism was still worth exporting to other countries. Castro replied that it wasn&#8217;t&#8211;and that it wasn&#8217;t even working &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/09\/apparently-the-ice-skating-rinks-have-opened-in-hell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}