{"id":2439,"date":"2009-02-16T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2009-02-16T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:40:55","slug":"hoping-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gigi Anders has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obit-mag.com\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/160\">waiting for Castro to kick it<\/a> ever since her family left Cuba and her tricycle was stolen from customs.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Castro promised a democratic government with elections, the restoration of the Constitution, and freedom from corruption. We believed. Castro wasn\u2019t a mythic white knight on a steed coming to save us. He was the steed itself, El Caballo. The Stallion.<\/p>\n<p>My family and I fled Cuba because within months of the takeover Castro and his men appropriated everything we had worked so hard for: my father\u2019s medical practice, my mother\u2019s social work job, our apartment, its contents, my grandparents\u2019 and uncles\u2019 and aunts\u2019 businesses and homes, and everybody\u2019s bank accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigi Anders has been waiting for Castro to kick it ever since her family left Cuba and her tricycle was stolen from customs. Castro promised a democratic government with elections, the restoration of the Constitution, and freedom from corruption. We believed. Castro wasn\u2019t a mythic white knight on a steed coming to save us. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoping for Death<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}