{"id":263,"date":"2020-04-26T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2020-04-26T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T11:50:40","slug":"chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Today marks the thirty-fourth anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1986\/04\/30\/world\/soviet-reporting-atom-plant-disaster-seeks-help-abroad-fight-reactor-fire.html\">Chernobyl disaster<\/a> [nytimes.com].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I highly recommend Adam Higgenbotham&#8217;s incredible account of the disaster &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster-ebook\/dp\/B07GNV7PNH\">Midnight at Chernobyl<\/a>.  Fantastically detailed, compellingly told, and undoubtedly among the most impactful books I&#8217;ve read in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also found the acclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/chernobyl\">HBO dramatization<\/a> to be well worth the time.  That&#8217;s not the same as saying I enjoyed it &#8211; I found it worthy while being occasionally agonizing to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the book to understand the disaster, watch the series for a relentless emotional pummeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster [nytimes.com]. I highly recommend Adam Higgenbotham&#8217;s incredible account of the disaster &#8211; Midnight at Chernobyl. Fantastically detailed, compellingly told, and undoubtedly among the most impactful books I&#8217;ve read in years. I also found the acclaimed HBO dramatization to be well worth the time. That&#8217;s not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/chernobyl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chernobyl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}