{"id":23694,"date":"2022-05-14T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23694"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T19:26:17","slug":"young-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23694","title":{"rendered":"Young Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-5xwyfkqm7em\" style=\"max-width:840px;\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:75.000000%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-5xwyfkqm7em\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5XwyFkQM7eM?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"630\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5XwyFkQM7eM?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"840\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/?p=23694#arve-youtube-5xwyfkqm7em\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/5XwyFkQM7eM?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Yesterday John Twelve Hawks posted on Facebook a link to this YouTube recording. A screen shot of his posting is below. John Twelve Hawks is reminding us that it&#8217;s not just Ukrainians who are dying in this war. Young Russians are dying by the thousands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/twelve.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/twelve.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/twelve-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/twelve-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/twelve-1536x939.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The recording is from 2019, so clearly the composer, Kirill Richter, wasn&#8217;t composing an <em>In Memoriam<\/em> for the war on Ukraine. Maybe he&#8217;s a bit prescient. Can we imagine how different the world might be if, instead of war, we had generous culture exchange between the West and the people of Russia and Eastern Europe? If it weren&#8217;t for social media, I for one would know nothing about the artists and musicians of Russia and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Twelve_Hawks\">John Twelve Hawks<\/a> is my favorite living science fiction writer. Unfortunately he hasn&#8217;t published anything new since 2014. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/richter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/richter.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/richter-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/richter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/richter-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><br \/>\n<center><em>Kirill Richter, a young Russian. Source: Spotify.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Twelve Hawks posted on Facebook a link to this YouTube recording. A screen shot of his posting is below. John Twelve Hawks is reminding us that it&#8217;s not just Ukrainians who are dying in this war. Young Russians are dying by the thousands. The recording is from 2019, so clearly the composer, Kirill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young Russians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23694"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23704,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694\/revisions\/23704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}