{"id":16549,"date":"2022-03-24T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16549"},"modified":"2022-03-24T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:42:36","slug":"zelensky-as-the-servant-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16549","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky as the &#8216;Servant of the People&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Sacramone reviews an episode of a recent TV series about a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.acton.org\/archives\/123204-volodymyr-zelensky-is-the-servant-of-the-people.html\">high school history teacher who became president<\/a> that stars the lawyer-turn-comedian who is the current president of Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In short, no one believes what is in fact the truth: A common man without guile or political experience is now the most powerful person in the country, thanks to a popular assent collated by the internet, the same medium that brings you cats falling off pony walls and Russian disinformation. Can you blame them?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says it&#8217;s funny, endearing, and probably has more heart than many comedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2019, when Zelensky won national election, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-48007487\">summarized his victory.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 24%.<\/p><p>&#8220;I will never let you down,&#8221; Mr Zelensky told celebrating supporters.<\/p><p>&#8230;<\/p><p>Experts say his supporters, frustrated with establishment politicians and cronyism, have been energised by his charisma and anti-corruption message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the Lord give him many years to fulfill this promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Sacramone reviews an episode of a recent TV series about a high school history teacher who became president that stars the lawyer-turn-comedian who is the current president of Ukraine. &#8220;In short, no one believes what is in fact the truth: A common man without guile or political experience is now the most powerful person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zelensky as the &#8216;Servant of the People&#8217;<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[4122,4084,4121],"class_list":["post-16549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-nonfiction","tag-servant-of-the-people","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16550,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions\/16550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}