{"id":22945,"date":"2011-03-13T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/22945\/heroes-ernesto-che-guevara\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T01:08:12","slug":"heroes-ernesto-che-guevara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/22945\/heroes-ernesto-che-guevara\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of my more controversial \u201cHeroes\u201d.  Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara was a medical doctor.  While still a student he took two rides through much of Latin America seeing first hand the intense poverty of most of the people.<\/p>\n<p>He witnessed first hand the assassination of a democratically elected President by CIA backed assassins.  He witnessed first hand the tragedy of people who lived in fear under military dictatorships.  He lived in a time when people who yearned for basic freedoms were denied a voice by governments backed by the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>In those times, those who rebelled against oppressive regimes could not count on the United States of America for support.  Even when the people of Hungary rebelled against the repressive communist regime in the 1950s the United States of America did nothing when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies put it down with tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara refused to accept the status quo and until his death fought for the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of my more controversial \u201cHeroes\u201d. Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara was a medical doctor. While still a student he took two rides through much of Latin America seeing first hand the intense poverty of most of the people. He witnessed first hand the assassination of a democratically elected President by CIA backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}