{"id":14,"date":"2006-07-09T18:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-07-09T18:21:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T17:21:55","slug":"the-most-iconic-political-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"The most iconic political image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can it be? When you think about it, it can be only one thing: the photograph of &#8216;Che&#8217; Guevara taken by Alberto &#8216;Korda&#8217; Diaz on 5 March 1960. This afternoon, I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\">Victoria &#038; Albert Museum<\/a> in central London to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/vastatic\/microsites\/1541_che\/\">an exhibition<\/a> built entirely around this image. How the picture was taken is itself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netssa.com\/che.html\">an interesting story<\/a>.<br \/>\nMy wife Vee has a special affection for Guevara for a reason that you would never guess. &#8216;Che&#8217; suffered from asthma. So did Vee&#8217;s brother &#8211; and in fact he died of it when he was just 21 in the arms of their mother on her birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can it be? When you think about it, it can be only one thing: the photograph of &#8216;Che&#8217; Guevara taken by Alberto &#8216;Korda&#8217; Diaz on 5 March 1960. This afternoon, I went to the Victoria &#038; Albert Museum in central London to see an exhibition built entirely around this image. How the picture was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}