{"id":55,"date":"2025-02-12T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2025-02-25T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:14:44","slug":"the-iron-curtain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/the-iron-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Iron Curtain was a conceptual barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War 2 to seal off itself and its dependent Central-Eastern European allies from open contact with the West and non-communist areas. The term Iron Curtain had been an occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century. Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill first use the term during a speech in the US on March 5th, 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6d7197c48ccc0514319e9c672e8efa1a.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Political cartoon referencing the Iron Curtain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iron Curtain was a conceptual barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War 2 to seal off itself and its dependent Central-Eastern European allies from open contact with the West and non-communist areas. The term Iron Curtain had been an occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century. Former British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-236-100-37.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}